How To Install zenity-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install zenity-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. zenity-common is Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts (common files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zenity-common on Debian 10.

What is zenity-common

zenity-common is:

Zenity allows you to display GTK+ dialogs from shell scripts; it is a rewrite of the `gdialog’ command from GNOME 1.

Zenity includes a gdialog wrapper script so that it can be used with legacy scripts.

This package contains architecture independent files.

There are three methods to install zenity-common 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 zenity-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zenity-common

Install zenity-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install zenity-common

Install zenity-common 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 zenity-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zenity-common

How To Uninstall zenity-common on Debian 10

To uninstall only the zenity-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove zenity-common

Uninstall zenity-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zenity-common

Remove zenity-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge zenity-common

Remove zenity-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zenity-common

Dependencies

zenity-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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