How To Install cinnamon-session-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-session-common on Debian 9.
What is cinnamon-session-common
cinnamon-session-common is:
The Cinnamon Session Manager is in charge of starting the core components of the Cinnamon desktop, and applications that should be launched at login time. It also features a way to save and restore currently running applications.
This package contains the translations, data files and startup scripts which are common to the Cinnamon and Cinnamon fallback sessions.
There are three methods to install cinnamon-session-common on Debian 9. 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-session-common 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-session-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cinnamon-session-common
Install cinnamon-session-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-session-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cinnamon-session-common
Install cinnamon-session-common 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-session-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cinnamon-session-common
How To Uninstall cinnamon-session-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cinnamon-session-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-session-common
Uninstall cinnamon-session-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cinnamon-session-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cinnamon-session-common
Remove cinnamon-session-common Configurations and Data
To remove cinnamon-session-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cinnamon-session-common
Remove cinnamon-session-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cinnamon-session-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cinnamon-session-common
Dependencies
cinnamon-session-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-session-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.