How To Install libmenu-cache3 on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmenu-cache3 on Debian 9.

What is libmenu-cache3

libmenu-cache3 is:

Libmenu-cache is a library creating and utilizing caches to speed up the access to freedesktop.org defined application menus.

It can be used as a replacement of libgnome-menu of gnome-menus:

• Shorten time for loading menu entries.
• Ease of use (API is very similar to that of libgnome-menu).
• Lightweight runtime library (parsing of the menu definition files are done by menu-cache-gen when the menus are really changed).
• Less unnecessary and complicated file monitoring.
• Heavily reduced disk I/O.

There are three methods to install libmenu-cache3 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 libmenu-cache3 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmenu-cache3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmenu-cache3

Install libmenu-cache3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmenu-cache3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmenu-cache3

Install libmenu-cache3 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 libmenu-cache3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmenu-cache3

How To Uninstall libmenu-cache3 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libmenu-cache3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmenu-cache3

Uninstall libmenu-cache3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmenu-cache3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmenu-cache3

Remove libmenu-cache3 Configurations and Data

To remove libmenu-cache3 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmenu-cache3

Remove libmenu-cache3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmenu-cache3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmenu-cache3

Dependencies

libmenu-cache3 have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libmenu-cache-bin

References

• libmenu-cache3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmenu-cache3 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.