How To Install wmshutdown on Debian 10

Learn how to install wmshutdown on Debian 10 with this tutorial. wmshutdown is dockapp to shutdown or reboot your machine

Introduction

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

What is wmshutdown

wmshutdown is:

This is a dock applications for Window Maker that allows you to shutdown or reboot your machine just by clickig a button on desktop and confirming. It’s useful just for desktop machines.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmshutdown

Install wmshutdown Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wmshutdown

Install wmshutdown 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 wmshutdown using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wmshutdown

How To Uninstall wmshutdown on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove wmshutdown

Uninstall wmshutdown And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmshutdown

Remove wmshutdown Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wmshutdown

Remove wmshutdown configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmshutdown

Dependencies

wmshutdown have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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