How To Install gextractwinicons on Debian 10

Learn how to install gextractwinicons on Debian 10 with this tutorial. gextractwinicons is extracts cursors and icons from MS Windows compatible resource files

Introduction

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

What is gextractwinicons

gextractwinicons is:

gExtractWinIcons can extract cursors, and icons from MS Windows compatible resource files (like .exe, .dll, .ocx, .cpl).

Both icons, cursors and PNG images can be extracted from resources files with different resolution and color depth. The extracted icon files can be also used for “favicon.ico” website icon.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gextractwinicons

Install gextractwinicons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gextractwinicons

Install gextractwinicons 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 gextractwinicons using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gextractwinicons

How To Uninstall gextractwinicons on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove gextractwinicons

Uninstall gextractwinicons And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gextractwinicons

Remove gextractwinicons Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gextractwinicons

Remove gextractwinicons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gextractwinicons

Dependencies

gextractwinicons have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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