How To Install crystalcursors on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crystalcursors on Debian 10.
What is crystalcursors
crystalcursors is:
This package contains “Crystal” style mouse cursor themes in four colours (blue, green, white, and grey) as well as green and blue “classic”, wherein certain cursors (e.g. the “hand” cursor) are white instead of coloured.
For Each of the above colours there are both right and left handed versions as well as animated and non-animated ones (except for the “classic” themes, which are all animated), for a total of 20 combinations.
Note: Please read /usr/share/doc/crystalcursors/README.Debian to learn how to change the default cursor theme system-wide.
There are three methods to install crystalcursors 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 crystalcursors Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install crystalcursors using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crystalcursors
Install crystalcursors Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crystalcursors using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crystalcursors
Install crystalcursors 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 crystalcursors using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crystalcursors
How To Uninstall crystalcursors on Debian 10
To uninstall only the crystalcursors package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crystalcursors
Uninstall crystalcursors And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crystalcursors and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove crystalcursors
Remove crystalcursors Configurations and Data
To remove crystalcursors configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crystalcursors
Remove crystalcursors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crystalcursors configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crystalcursors
Dependencies
crystalcursors have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crystalcursors package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
