How To Install libbemenu-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libbemenu-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libbemenu-dev is Dynamic menu inspired by dmenu (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbemenu-dev on Debian 12.

What is libbemenu-dev

libbemenu-dev 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 development files.

There are three methods to install libbemenu-dev 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-dev 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-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbemenu-dev

Install libbemenu-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libbemenu-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libbemenu-dev

Install libbemenu-dev 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-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbemenu-dev

How To Uninstall libbemenu-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libbemenu-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbemenu-dev

Uninstall libbemenu-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbemenu-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbemenu-dev

Remove libbemenu-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libbemenu-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbemenu-dev

Remove libbemenu-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libbemenu-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbemenu-dev

Dependencies

libbemenu-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbemenu-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.