How To Install impressive-display on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install impressive-display on Debian 12.
What is impressive-display
impressive-display is:
Provide an X11 session manager script that launches a minimal window manager and then launches the impressive PDF viewer in fullscreen mode.
In combination with the nodm display manager you can provide an easy-to-setup display screen based on regulary updated PDF files.
The viewed PDF file can be obtained from a given URL in regular intervals. Alternatively (or for testing purposes) you can also display a local static PDF file.
There are three methods to install impressive-display 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 impressive-display Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install impressive-display using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install impressive-display
Install impressive-display Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install impressive-display using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install impressive-display
Install impressive-display 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 impressive-display using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install impressive-display
How To Uninstall impressive-display on Debian 12
To uninstall only the impressive-display package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove impressive-display
Uninstall impressive-display And Its Dependencies
To uninstall impressive-display and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove impressive-display
Remove impressive-display Configurations and Data
To remove impressive-display configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge impressive-display
Remove impressive-display configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove impressive-display configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge impressive-display
Dependencies
impressive-display have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install impressive-display package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
