How To Install gpomme on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpomme on Debian 10.
What is gpomme
gpomme is:
pommed handles the hotkeys found on the Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, MacBook, PowerBook and iBook laptops and adjusts the LCD backlight, sound volume, keyboard backlight or ejects the CD-ROM drive accordingly.
gpomme is a graphical client for pommed. It listens for signals sent by pommed on D-Bus and displays the action taken by pommed along with the current state associated to this action.
There are three methods to install gpomme on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gpomme Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpomme using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpomme
Install gpomme Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpomme using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpomme
Install gpomme 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 gpomme using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpomme
How To Uninstall gpomme on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gpomme package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpomme
Uninstall gpomme And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpomme and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpomme
Remove gpomme Configurations and Data
To remove gpomme configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpomme
Remove gpomme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpomme configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpomme
Dependencies
gpomme have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libconfuse2
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libfribidi0
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- pommed
- dbus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpomme package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.