How To Install icewm-experimental on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-experimental
on Debian 12.
What is icewm-experimental
icewm-experimental is:
IceWm is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif. It tries to take the best features of the above systems. Additional features include multiple workspaces, opaque move/resize, task bar, window list, mailbox status, digital clock.
This package sometimes provides special IceWm versions with experimental features enabled. When the configurations of the packages do not diverge it simply enforces an upgrade to the current icewm package.
There are three methods to install icewm-experimental
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 icewm-experimental Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icewm-experimental
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icewm-experimental
Install icewm-experimental Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icewm-experimental
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icewm-experimental
Install icewm-experimental 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 icewm-experimental
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icewm-experimental
How To Uninstall icewm-experimental on Debian 12
To uninstall only the icewm-experimental
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icewm-experimental
Uninstall icewm-experimental And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icewm-experimental
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icewm-experimental
Remove icewm-experimental Configurations and Data
To remove icewm-experimental
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icewm-experimental
Remove icewm-experimental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icewm-experimental
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icewm-experimental
Dependencies
icewm-experimental have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-experimental
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.