How To Install gnome-shell-mailnag on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-mailnag
on Debian 12.
What is gnome-shell-mailnag
gnome-shell-mailnag is:
This package provides GNOME Shell integration for Mailnag. It includes the following features:
- Notifies about new mails via the messaging tray (including a counter badge)
- Shows an indicator in the top panel (including counter badge and popup menu)
- Lock screen integration
There are three methods to install gnome-shell-mailnag
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-mailnag 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-mailnag
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-shell-mailnag
Install gnome-shell-mailnag Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-mailnag
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-shell-mailnag
Install gnome-shell-mailnag 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-mailnag
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-shell-mailnag
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-mailnag on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-mailnag
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell-mailnag
Uninstall gnome-shell-mailnag And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-shell-mailnag
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-shell-mailnag
Remove gnome-shell-mailnag Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-shell-mailnag
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-shell-mailnag
Remove gnome-shell-mailnag configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-shell-mailnag
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-shell-mailnag
Dependencies
gnome-shell-mailnag have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-mailnag
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.