How To Install wmfire on Debian 10

Learn how to install wmfire on Debian 10 with this tutorial. wmfire is very cool fiery way of showing your CPU usage

Introduction

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

What is wmfire

wmfire is:

A Window Maker (or similar) dockapp which shows your current CPU usage as a roaring fire.

It can monitor the average cpu load, or individual cpu load on SMP computers. Additionally it can monitor the memory, network load, a file or just be set to show a pretty flame. On entering the dock a burning spot replaces the cursor, and after two seconds symbols to represent the current monitor are “burnt” onscreen. The flame colour can also be changed.

It uses the GDK library to improve its speed - using less than half the CPU of the original program.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmfire

Install wmfire Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wmfire

Install wmfire 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 wmfire using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wmfire

How To Uninstall wmfire on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove wmfire

Uninstall wmfire And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmfire

Remove wmfire Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wmfire

Remove wmfire configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmfire

Dependencies

wmfire have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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