How To Install grail-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grail-tools on Debian 12.
What is grail-tools
grail-tools is:
This library consists of an interface and tools for handling gesture recognition and gesture instantiation. Applications can use the grail callbacks to receive gesture primitives and raw input events from the underlying kernel device.
This package provides some test tools for the grail library.
There are three methods to install grail-tools 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 grail-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grail-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grail-tools
Install grail-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grail-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grail-tools
Install grail-tools 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 grail-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grail-tools
How To Uninstall grail-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the grail-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grail-tools
Uninstall grail-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grail-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grail-tools
Remove grail-tools Configurations and Data
To remove grail-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grail-tools
Remove grail-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grail-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grail-tools
Dependencies
grail-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grail-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
