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

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

Introduction

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

What is gnome-shell-extension-espresso

gnome-shell-extension-espresso 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-espresso 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-espresso 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-espresso using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install gnome-shell-extension-espresso Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-espresso And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnome-shell-extension-espresso 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-espresso

Remove gnome-shell-extension-espresso Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

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

References

Summary

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