How To Install tinywm on Debian 10

Learn how to install tinywm on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tinywm is tiny window manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tinywm on Debian 10.

What is tinywm

tinywm is:

TinyWM is a small, simple window manager. It has a minimal memory footprint, which makes it useful in embedded systems. It features window move, resize, and raise operations, and supports “sloppy focus”.

Due to its simplicity, its source code (in C and Python) can be used as a reference implementation for developers seeking to understand basic window manager programming.

There are three methods to install tinywm 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 tinywm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tinywm

Install tinywm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tinywm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tinywm

Install tinywm 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 tinywm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tinywm

How To Uninstall tinywm on Debian 10

To uninstall only the tinywm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tinywm

Uninstall tinywm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tinywm

Remove tinywm Configurations and Data

To remove tinywm configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tinywm

Remove tinywm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tinywm

Dependencies

tinywm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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