How To Install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine on Debian 12

Learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gnome-shell-extension-caffeine is GNOME Shell extension to keep your computer awake

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine on Debian 12.

What is gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

gnome-shell-extension-caffeine is:

This GNOME Shell extension provides an icon which can be toggled to inhibit the actions that would normally be taken when the system is idle, including screen locking, screensaver and automatic suspend. By default it also inhibits idle actions while any window is full-screen, and it can be configured to inhibit idle actions while user-specified applications have any window open.

Please note that each user will need to enable the extension manually, for example using gnome-extensions-app from the gnome-shell-extension-prefs package.

There are three methods to install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine 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 gnome-shell-extension-caffeine 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-shell-extension-caffeine using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine 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-shell-extension-caffeine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-caffeine on Debian 12

To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-caffeine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-caffeine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnome-shell-extension-caffeine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Remove gnome-shell-extension-caffeine Configurations and Data

To remove gnome-shell-extension-caffeine configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Remove gnome-shell-extension-caffeine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gnome-shell-extension-caffeine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-shell-extension-caffeine

Dependencies

gnome-shell-extension-caffeine have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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