How To Install fsviewer-icons on Debian 10

Learn how to install fsviewer-icons on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fsviewer-icons is icons for fsviewer to make it look more like the NeXT FileViewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fsviewer-icons on Debian 10.

What is fsviewer-icons

fsviewer-icons is:

Some nice XPM icons to provide fsviewer with a more NeXT-like look, although fsviewer does run without them.

These icons are only useful if used with fsviewer, which is a lightweight standalone (no need for openstep) filemanager based on the one included with NeXTSTEP. It integrates well with Window Maker but can be used with any WM. Features include Browser mode, DND and file operations.

Icon source files are included in TIFF format.

There are three methods to install fsviewer-icons 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 fsviewer-icons Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fsviewer-icons

Install fsviewer-icons Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fsviewer-icons

Install fsviewer-icons 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 fsviewer-icons using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fsviewer-icons

How To Uninstall fsviewer-icons on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fsviewer-icons package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fsviewer-icons

Uninstall fsviewer-icons And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fsviewer-icons and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fsviewer-icons

Remove fsviewer-icons Configurations and Data

To remove fsviewer-icons configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fsviewer-icons

Remove fsviewer-icons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fsviewer-icons

Dependencies

fsviewer-icons have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fsviewer-icons package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.