How To Install fbpanel on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel on Debian 10.
What is fbpanel
fbpanel is:
FBPanel is a spinoff of the fspanel (f***ing small panel) with more eye candy. It provides a taskbar (list of all opened windows), desktop switcher, launchbar, clock, is EWMH/NETWM compliant, and has modest resource usage.
There are three methods to install fbpanel on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fbpanel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fbpanel using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fbpanel
Install fbpanel Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fbpanel using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fbpanel
Install fbpanel 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 fbpanel using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fbpanel
How To Uninstall fbpanel on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fbpanel package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fbpanel
Uninstall fbpanel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fbpanel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fbpanel
Remove fbpanel Configurations and Data
To remove fbpanel configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fbpanel
Remove fbpanel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fbpanel configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fbpanel
Dependencies
fbpanel have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- librsvg2-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.