How To Install breeze on Debian 12

Learn how to install breeze on Debian 12 with this tutorial. breeze is Default Plasma theme (Metapackage)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install breeze on Debian 12.

What is breeze

breeze is:

This is the default theme for the KDE Plasma desktop.

This package includes wallpapers, icons, cursors, KWin style and Qt widget style for the Plasma 5 desktop.

This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.

There are three methods to install breeze 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 breeze Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install breeze using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install breeze

Install breeze Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install breeze using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install breeze

Install breeze 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 breeze using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install breeze

How To Uninstall breeze on Debian 12

To uninstall only the breeze package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove breeze

Uninstall breeze And Its Dependencies

To uninstall breeze and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove breeze

Remove breeze Configurations and Data

To remove breeze configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge breeze

Remove breeze configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove breeze configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge breeze

Dependencies

breeze have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install breeze package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.