How To Install cinnamon-screensaver on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-screensaver on Debian 11.
What is cinnamon-screensaver
cinnamon-screensaver is:
cinnamon-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane and secure defaults, and be well integrated with the Cinnamon desktop.
There are three methods to install cinnamon-screensaver on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cinnamon-screensaver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-screensaver using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cinnamon-screensaver
Install cinnamon-screensaver Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-screensaver using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cinnamon-screensaver
Install cinnamon-screensaver 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 cinnamon-screensaver using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cinnamon-screensaver
How To Uninstall cinnamon-screensaver on Debian 11
To uninstall only the cinnamon-screensaver package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-screensaver
Uninstall cinnamon-screensaver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cinnamon-screensaver and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cinnamon-screensaver
Remove cinnamon-screensaver Configurations and Data
To remove cinnamon-screensaver configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cinnamon-screensaver
Remove cinnamon-screensaver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cinnamon-screensaver configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cinnamon-screensaver
Dependencies
cinnamon-screensaver have the following dependencies:
- cinnamon-desktop-data
- gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0
- gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0
- gir1.2-gkbd-3.0
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- gir1.2-xapp-1.0
- iso-flags-png-320x240
- libcscreensaver0
- python3-gi
- python3-gi-cairo
- python3-setproctitle
- python3-xapp
- python3-xlib
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-screensaver package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
