How To Install bemenu on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bemenu on Debian 12.
What is bemenu
bemenu is:
bemenu is a dynamic menu for tty (using ncurses), X11 and/or Wayland, inspired by dmenu. It reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed to standard output and bemenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those matching the tokens in the input.
There are three methods to install bemenu 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 bemenu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bemenu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bemenu
Install bemenu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bemenu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bemenu
Install bemenu 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 bemenu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bemenu
How To Uninstall bemenu on Debian 12
To uninstall only the bemenu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bemenu
Uninstall bemenu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bemenu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bemenu
Remove bemenu Configurations and Data
To remove bemenu configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bemenu
Remove bemenu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bemenu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bemenu
Dependencies
bemenu have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bemenu package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.