How To Install adwaita-qt6 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-qt6 on Debian 12.
What is adwaita-qt6
adwaita-qt6 is:
Adwaita-Qt provides a port of Adwaita theme, which is the default style of GNOME, to Qt 6.
To use it, start your Qt applications with ??-style Adwaita?? parameter, or export QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=Adwaita environment variable. For the dark version, use Adwaita-Dark instead of Adwaita.
There are three methods to install adwaita-qt6 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install adwaita-qt6 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-qt6 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install adwaita-qt6
Install adwaita-qt6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-qt6 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install adwaita-qt6
Install adwaita-qt6 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 adwaita-qt6 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install adwaita-qt6
How To Uninstall adwaita-qt6 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the adwaita-qt6 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove adwaita-qt6
Uninstall adwaita-qt6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall adwaita-qt6 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove adwaita-qt6
Remove adwaita-qt6 Configurations and Data
To remove adwaita-qt6 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge adwaita-qt6
Remove adwaita-qt6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove adwaita-qt6 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adwaita-qt6
Dependencies
adwaita-qt6 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-qt6 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
