How To Install openbox-menu on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install openbox-menu on Debian 9. openbox-menu is openbox pipe-menu to display entries in *.desktop files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openbox-menu on Debian 9.

What is openbox-menu

openbox-menu is:

openbox-menu is a pipemenu for the openbox window manager. It provides a dynamic menu listing of installed applications. Most of the work is done by the LXDE library menu-cache.

There are three methods to install openbox-menu on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install openbox-menu Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install openbox-menu using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install openbox-menu

Install openbox-menu Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install openbox-menu using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install openbox-menu

Install openbox-menu Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install openbox-menu using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openbox-menu

How To Uninstall openbox-menu on Debian 9

To uninstall only the openbox-menu package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openbox-menu

Uninstall openbox-menu And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openbox-menu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openbox-menu

Remove openbox-menu Configurations and Data

To remove openbox-menu configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openbox-menu

Remove openbox-menu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove openbox-menu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openbox-menu

Dependencies

openbox-menu have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openbox-menu package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.