How To Install libdbusmenu-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbusmenu-tools
on Debian 9.
What is libdbusmenu-tools
libdbusmenu-tools is:
libdbusmenu passes a menu structure across DBus so that a program can create a menu simply without worrying about how it is displayed on the other side of the bus.
This package contains tools that are useful when developing and building applications with libdbusmenu.
There are three methods to install libdbusmenu-tools
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libdbusmenu-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 libdbusmenu-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdbusmenu-tools
Install libdbusmenu-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdbusmenu-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdbusmenu-tools
Install libdbusmenu-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 libdbusmenu-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdbusmenu-tools
How To Uninstall libdbusmenu-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libdbusmenu-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdbusmenu-tools
Uninstall libdbusmenu-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdbusmenu-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdbusmenu-tools
Remove libdbusmenu-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libdbusmenu-tools
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdbusmenu-tools
Remove libdbusmenu-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdbusmenu-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdbusmenu-tools
Dependencies
libdbusmenu-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdbusmenu-tools
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.