How To Install fbterm on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbterm on Debian 9.
What is fbterm
fbterm is:
FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux with frame buffer device.
Features include:
- mostly as fast as terminal of Linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled on framebuffer device
- select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps
- dynamicly create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell
- record scrollback history for every window
- auto-detect current locale and convert text encoding, support double width scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc
- switch between configurable additional text encoding with hot keys on the fly
- copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running
There are three methods to install fbterm 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 fbterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fbterm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fbterm
Install fbterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fbterm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fbterm
Install fbterm 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 fbterm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fbterm
How To Uninstall fbterm on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fbterm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fbterm
Uninstall fbterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fbterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fbterm
Remove fbterm Configurations and Data
To remove fbterm configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fbterm
Remove fbterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fbterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fbterm
Dependencies
fbterm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbterm package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.