How To Install lxlauncher on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxlauncher on Debian 10.
What is lxlauncher
lxlauncher is:
LXLauncher is a GUI application for the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE).
It is a Easy-Mode launcher for netbooks and subnotebooks like the EeePC. It’s standard-compliant and desktop-independent. It follows freedesktop.org specs, so newly added applications will automatically show up in the launcher, and vice versa for the removed ones.
There are three methods to install lxlauncher 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 lxlauncher Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lxlauncher using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lxlauncher
Install lxlauncher Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lxlauncher using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lxlauncher
Install lxlauncher 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 lxlauncher using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lxlauncher
How To Uninstall lxlauncher on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lxlauncher package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lxlauncher
Uninstall lxlauncher And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lxlauncher and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxlauncher
Remove lxlauncher Configurations and Data
To remove lxlauncher configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lxlauncher
Remove lxlauncher configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lxlauncher configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxlauncher
Dependencies
lxlauncher have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libmenu-cache3
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libstartup-notification0
- libx11-6
- lxmenu-data
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxlauncher package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
