How To Install cinnamon-session on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-session on Debian 9.
What is cinnamon-session
cinnamon-session 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 binaries for the Cinnamon Session Manager, but no startup scripts. It is meant for those willing to start cinnamon-session by hand with the components of their choice, and for applications such as MDM that use cinnamon-session internally.
There are three methods to install cinnamon-session 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cinnamon-session
Install cinnamon-session Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cinnamon-session using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cinnamon-session
Install cinnamon-session 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cinnamon-session
How To Uninstall cinnamon-session on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cinnamon-session package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-session
Uninstall cinnamon-session And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cinnamon-session and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cinnamon-session
Remove cinnamon-session Configurations and Data
To remove cinnamon-session configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cinnamon-session
Remove cinnamon-session configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cinnamon-session configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cinnamon-session
Dependencies
cinnamon-session have the following dependencies:
- cinnamon-desktop-data
- cinnamon-session-common
- default-dbus-session-bus
- upower
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcanberra0
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libgl1-mesa-glx
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libice6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-session package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.