How To Install rss-glx on Debian 12

Learn how to install rss-glx on Debian 12 with this tutorial. rss-glx is Really Slick Screensavers GLX Port

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rss-glx on Debian 12.

What is rss-glx

rss-glx is:

rss-glx is a GLX port of the Really Slick Screensavers collection by Terry Welsh (http://www.reallyslick.com/). Also included are several other OpenGL screensavers ported from other platforms.

The screensavers can either be run as stand-alone applications or get integrated into XScreenSaver’s list of active screensavers. More information about using these with xscreensaver can be found in /usr/share/doc/rss-glx.

Screensavers included in this package are: Biof, Busy Spheres, Colorfire, Cyclone, Drempels, Euphoria, Feedback, Fieldlines, Flocks, Flux, Helios, Hufo’s Smoke, Hufo’s Tunnel, Hyperspace, Lattice, Lorenz Attractor, MatrixView, Plasma, Pixel City, Skyrocket, Solarwinds, SpirographX, and Sundancer2.

There are three methods to install rss-glx on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install rss-glx Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rss-glx

Install rss-glx Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rss-glx

Install rss-glx 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 rss-glx using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rss-glx

How To Uninstall rss-glx on Debian 12

To uninstall only the rss-glx package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rss-glx

Uninstall rss-glx And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rss-glx and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rss-glx

Remove rss-glx Configurations and Data

To remove rss-glx configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rss-glx

Remove rss-glx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rss-glx

Dependencies

rss-glx have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rss-glx package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.