How To Install mousepad on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mousepad on Debian 11.
What is mousepad
mousepad is:
Mousepad is a graphical text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad.
The initial reason for Mousepad was to provide printing support, which would have been difficult for Leafpad for various reasons.
Although some features are under development, currently Mousepad has the following features:
- Complete support for UTF-8 text
- Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text
- Search and Replace
- Font selection
- Word Wrap
- Character coding selection
- Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some code-sets)
- Manual code-set setting
- Infinite Undo/Redo by word
- Auto Indent
- Multi-line Indent
- Display line numbers
- Drag and Drop
- Printing
There are three methods to install mousepad 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 mousepad Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mousepad using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mousepad
Install mousepad Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mousepad using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mousepad
Install mousepad 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 mousepad using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mousepad
How To Uninstall mousepad on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mousepad package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mousepad
Uninstall mousepad And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mousepad and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mousepad
Remove mousepad Configurations and Data
To remove mousepad configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mousepad
Remove mousepad configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mousepad configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mousepad
Dependencies
mousepad have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mousepad package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
