How To Install geany on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany on Debian 12.
What is geany
geany is:
Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It is using only the GTK3 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK3 runtime libraries to run Geany.
The basic features of Geany are:
- syntax highlighting
- code completion
- auto completion of constructs like if, for and while, XML and HTML
- call tips
- folding
- many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
- symbol lists
- embedded terminal emulation
There are three methods to install geany 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 geany Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install geany using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geany
Install geany Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geany using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geany
Install geany 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 geany using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geany
How To Uninstall geany on Debian 12
To uninstall only the geany package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geany
Uninstall geany And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geany and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geany
Remove geany Configurations and Data
To remove geany configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geany
Remove geany configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geany configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geany
Dependencies
geany have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgcc-s1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libstdc++6
- geany-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.