How To Install tango-icon-theme on Debian 10

Learn how to install tango-icon-theme on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tango-icon-theme is Tango icon library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tango-icon-theme on Debian 10.

What is tango-icon-theme

tango-icon-theme is:

This package contains the icons made by the Tango project.

The project’s aim is to create a cross-desktop and cross-platform icon theme following the Icon Naming Specification by the Freedesktop project. The icons follow a standard and consistent style guide to look coherent.

There are three methods to install tango-icon-theme 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 tango-icon-theme Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tango-icon-theme using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tango-icon-theme

Install tango-icon-theme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tango-icon-theme using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tango-icon-theme

Install tango-icon-theme 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 tango-icon-theme using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tango-icon-theme

How To Uninstall tango-icon-theme on Debian 10

To uninstall only the tango-icon-theme package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tango-icon-theme

Uninstall tango-icon-theme And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tango-icon-theme

Remove tango-icon-theme Configurations and Data

To remove tango-icon-theme configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tango-icon-theme

Remove tango-icon-theme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tango-icon-theme configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tango-icon-theme

Dependencies

tango-icon-theme have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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