How To Install perlpanel on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perlpanel on Debian 9.
What is perlpanel
perlpanel is:
PerlPanel draws a small taskbar on your screen to display some useful widgets like a programs menu, some shortcut icons, a system tray and so on. It’s similar to the Windows Taskbar, the GNOME Panel, and KDE’s Kicker.
PerlPanel is completely independent of any particular environment. You can use it with any window manager, without need for one of the big desktop environments.
You can create your own applets to show and do whatever you need using Perl and the Gtk2 bindings for it. It’s no problem to run several PerlPanels at the same time.
There are three methods to install perlpanel 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 perlpanel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install perlpanel using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install perlpanel
Install perlpanel Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install perlpanel using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install perlpanel
Install perlpanel 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 perlpanel using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install perlpanel
How To Uninstall perlpanel on Debian 9
To uninstall only the perlpanel package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove perlpanel
Uninstall perlpanel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall perlpanel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove perlpanel
Remove perlpanel Configurations and Data
To remove perlpanel configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge perlpanel
Remove perlpanel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove perlpanel configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge perlpanel
Dependencies
perlpanel have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perlpanel package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
