How To Install libmutter-7-0 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-7-0 on Debian 11.
What is libmutter-7-0
libmutter-7-0 is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the window manager shared library, used by mutter itself, and gnome-shell.
There are three methods to install libmutter-7-0 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmutter-7-0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-7-0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmutter-7-0
Install libmutter-7-0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-7-0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmutter-7-0
Install libmutter-7-0 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 libmutter-7-0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmutter-7-0
How To Uninstall libmutter-7-0 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libmutter-7-0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmutter-7-0
Uninstall libmutter-7-0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmutter-7-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmutter-7-0
Remove libmutter-7-0 Configurations and Data
To remove libmutter-7-0 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmutter-7-0
Remove libmutter-7-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmutter-7-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmutter-7-0
Dependencies
libmutter-7-0 have the following dependencies:
- adwaita-icon-theme
- gsettings-desktop-schemas
- mutter-common
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libcanberra0
- libdrm2
- libegl1
- libfontconfig1
- libfribidi0
- libgbm1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libgl1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnome-desktop-3-19
- libgraphene-1.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- libice6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-7-0 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
