How To Install gfxboot-themes on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfxboot-themes
on Debian 9.
What is gfxboot-themes
gfxboot-themes is:
gfxboot is a tool to test and create graphical boot logos for gfxboot compliant boot loaders. Currently, this includes grub, lilo, and syslinux (all payloads).
This package contains full featured themes (KDE, openSUSE, SLED, SLES, and upstream).
There are three methods to install gfxboot-themes
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 gfxboot-themes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gfxboot-themes
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gfxboot-themes
Install gfxboot-themes Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gfxboot-themes
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gfxboot-themes
Install gfxboot-themes 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 gfxboot-themes
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gfxboot-themes
How To Uninstall gfxboot-themes on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gfxboot-themes
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gfxboot-themes
Uninstall gfxboot-themes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gfxboot-themes
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gfxboot-themes
Remove gfxboot-themes Configurations and Data
To remove gfxboot-themes
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gfxboot-themes
Remove gfxboot-themes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gfxboot-themes
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gfxboot-themes
Dependencies
gfxboot-themes have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfxboot-themes
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.