How To Install impressive on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install impressive on Debian 11.
What is impressive
impressive is:
Impressive is a program that displays presentation slides using OpenGL. Smooth alpha-blended slide transitions are provided for the sake of eye candy, but in addition to this, Impressive offers some unique tools that are really useful for presentations. Some of them are:
- Overview screen
- Highlight boxes
- Spotlight effect
- Presentation scripting and customization
- Support of movies presentation
- Active hyperlinks within PDFs
There are three methods to install impressive on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install impressive Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install impressive using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install impressive
Install impressive Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install impressive using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install impressive
Install impressive 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 impressive using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install impressive
How To Uninstall impressive on Debian 11
To uninstall only the impressive package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove impressive
Uninstall impressive And Its Dependencies
To uninstall impressive and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove impressive
Remove impressive Configurations and Data
To remove impressive configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge impressive
Remove impressive configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove impressive configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge impressive
Dependencies
impressive have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install impressive package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
