How To Install budgie-desktop-view on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-desktop-view on Debian 12.
What is budgie-desktop-view
budgie-desktop-view is:
Budgie-Desktop is a GTK+ based desktop environment which focuses on simplicity and elegance. It provides a traditional desktop metaphor based interface utilising customisable panel based menu driven system. Budgie-Desktop is written from scratch utilising many GNOME based sub-systems such as GNOME-Session and Mutter.
Budgie Desktop View provides: Options to enable and access “special” folders such as your Home directory and Trash. Showing active drive / volume mounts (including mounted removable media). An ordered list of Desktop directory contents, prioritizing folders before files while maintaining order of content that respects locales. Independently adjustable icon sizing from your file manager Right-click menu options for the background canvas to quickly access Budgie Desktop and System Settings, as well right-click menu options for opening a file using the default app, or via the Terminal.
Budgie Desktop View is designed for the Budgie Desktop
There are three methods to install budgie-desktop-view 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 budgie-desktop-view Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install budgie-desktop-view using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install budgie-desktop-view
Install budgie-desktop-view Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install budgie-desktop-view using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install budgie-desktop-view
Install budgie-desktop-view 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 budgie-desktop-view using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install budgie-desktop-view
How To Uninstall budgie-desktop-view on Debian 12
To uninstall only the budgie-desktop-view package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove budgie-desktop-view
Uninstall budgie-desktop-view And Its Dependencies
To uninstall budgie-desktop-view and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove budgie-desktop-view
Remove budgie-desktop-view Configurations and Data
To remove budgie-desktop-view configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge budgie-desktop-view
Remove budgie-desktop-view configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove budgie-desktop-view configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge budgie-desktop-view
Dependencies
budgie-desktop-view have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-desktop-view package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.