How To Install gnome-icon-theme-extras on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-icon-theme-extras
on Debian 9.
What is gnome-icon-theme-extras
gnome-icon-theme-extras is:
This package contains the default icon theme used by the GNOME desktop. The icons are used in the panel menu, and in nautilus and other applications, to represent the different applications, files, directories, and devices.
This package contains additional icons for the default GNOME icon theme.
There are three methods to install gnome-icon-theme-extras
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 gnome-icon-theme-extras Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-icon-theme-extras
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-icon-theme-extras
Install gnome-icon-theme-extras Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-icon-theme-extras
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-icon-theme-extras
Install gnome-icon-theme-extras 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 gnome-icon-theme-extras
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-icon-theme-extras
How To Uninstall gnome-icon-theme-extras on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gnome-icon-theme-extras
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-icon-theme-extras
Uninstall gnome-icon-theme-extras And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-icon-theme-extras
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-icon-theme-extras
Remove gnome-icon-theme-extras Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-icon-theme-extras
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-icon-theme-extras
Remove gnome-icon-theme-extras configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-icon-theme-extras
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-icon-theme-extras
Dependencies
gnome-icon-theme-extras have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-icon-theme-extras
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.