How To Install libvte9 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvte9 on Debian 10.
What is libvte9
libvte9 is:
The VTE library provides a terminal emulator widget VteTerminal for applications using the GTK+ toolkit. It also provides the VtePTY object containing functions for starting a new process on a new pseudo-terminal and for manipulating pseudo-terminals.
This package contains the runtime library, needed by programs using the VTE widget with GTK+ 2.0.
There are three methods to install libvte9 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libvte9 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvte9 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvte9
Install libvte9 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvte9 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvte9
Install libvte9 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 libvte9 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvte9
How To Uninstall libvte9 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libvte9 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvte9
Uninstall libvte9 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvte9 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvte9
Remove libvte9 Configurations and Data
To remove libvte9 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvte9
Remove libvte9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvte9 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvte9
Dependencies
libvte9 have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libtinfo6
- libx11-6
- libvte-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvte9 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.