How To Install appmenu-registrar on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install appmenu-registrar
on Debian 10.
What is appmenu-registrar
appmenu-registrar is:
This package provides a standalone Appmenu registrar that allows other applications to access any active window’s application menu tree.
Such a registrar is extremely useful for, e.g.
- implementing global menus (application menus appear in the top panel bar of the desktop environment)
- adding an application menu browser or search engine to HUDs
The registrar uses the protocol originally published with the Unity7 desktop environment. It supports all features found in that implementation.
This package is a subproject of the vala-panel-appmenu project.
There are three methods to install appmenu-registrar
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 appmenu-registrar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install appmenu-registrar
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install appmenu-registrar
Install appmenu-registrar Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install appmenu-registrar
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install appmenu-registrar
Install appmenu-registrar 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 appmenu-registrar
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install appmenu-registrar
How To Uninstall appmenu-registrar on Debian 10
To uninstall only the appmenu-registrar
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove appmenu-registrar
Uninstall appmenu-registrar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall appmenu-registrar
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove appmenu-registrar
Remove appmenu-registrar Configurations and Data
To remove appmenu-registrar
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge appmenu-registrar
Remove appmenu-registrar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove appmenu-registrar
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge appmenu-registrar
Dependencies
appmenu-registrar have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install appmenu-registrar
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.