How To Install libbemenu-curses on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbemenu-curses on Debian 12.
What is libbemenu-curses
libbemenu-curses is:
bemenu is a dynamic menu for tty (using ncurses), X11 and/or Wayland, inspired by dmenu. It reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed to standard output and bemenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those matching the tokens in the input.
This package contains the curses backend.
There are three methods to install libbemenu-curses 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 libbemenu-curses Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libbemenu-curses using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbemenu-curses
Install libbemenu-curses Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbemenu-curses using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbemenu-curses
Install libbemenu-curses 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 libbemenu-curses using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbemenu-curses
How To Uninstall libbemenu-curses on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libbemenu-curses package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbemenu-curses
Uninstall libbemenu-curses And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbemenu-curses and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbemenu-curses
Remove libbemenu-curses Configurations and Data
To remove libbemenu-curses configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbemenu-curses
Remove libbemenu-curses configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbemenu-curses configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbemenu-curses
Dependencies
libbemenu-curses have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbemenu-curses package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
