How To Install slick-greeter on Debian 10

Learn how to install slick-greeter on Debian 10 with this tutorial. slick-greeter is Slick-looking LightDM greeter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install slick-greeter on Debian 10.

What is slick-greeter

slick-greeter is:

Slick-Greeter is cross-distribution and should work pretty much anywhere.

All panel applets are embedded. No external indicators are launched or loaded by the greeter.

No settings daemon are launched or loaded by the greeter.

This greeter supports HiDPI.

Sessions are validated. If a default/chosen session isn’t present on the system, the greeter scans for known sessions in /usr/share/xsessions and replaces the invalid session choice with a valid session.

You can take a screenshot by pressing PrintScrn. The screenshot is saved in /var/lib/lightdm/Screenshot.png.

Slick Greeter started as a fork of Unity Greeter 16.04.2, a greeter developed for Ubuntu by Canonical, which used indicators and unity-settings-daemon.

There are three methods to install slick-greeter on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install slick-greeter Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install slick-greeter

Install slick-greeter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install slick-greeter

Install slick-greeter 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 slick-greeter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install slick-greeter

How To Uninstall slick-greeter on Debian 10

To uninstall only the slick-greeter package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove slick-greeter

Uninstall slick-greeter And Its Dependencies

To uninstall slick-greeter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove slick-greeter

Remove slick-greeter Configurations and Data

To remove slick-greeter configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge slick-greeter

Remove slick-greeter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slick-greeter

Dependencies

slick-greeter have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install slick-greeter package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.