How To Install foot on Debian 12

Learn how to install foot on Debian 12 with this tutorial. foot is Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install foot on Debian 12.

What is foot

foot is:

The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Features

  • Fast
  • Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory
  • Wayland native
  • DE agnostic
  • User configurable font fallback
  • On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment
  • Scrollback search
  • Color emoji support
  • Server/daemon mode
  • Multi-seat
  • Synchronized Updates support
  • Sixel image support

There are three methods to install foot on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install foot Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install foot using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install foot

Install foot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install foot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install foot

Install foot 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 foot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install foot

How To Uninstall foot on Debian 12

To uninstall only the foot package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove foot

Uninstall foot And Its Dependencies

To uninstall foot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove foot

Remove foot Configurations and Data

To remove foot configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge foot

Remove foot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove foot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge foot

Dependencies

foot have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install foot package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.