How To Install looking-glass-client on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install looking-glass-client
on Debian 12.
What is looking-glass-client
looking-glass-client is:
LookingGlass enables you to use shared memory to pass rendered frames from a virtual machine back to the host system.
A LookingGlass Host implementation is required to run on the guest virtual machine. It is recommended that the client and host versions match. See the README.Debian for more information.
There are three methods to install looking-glass-client
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 looking-glass-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install looking-glass-client
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install looking-glass-client
Install looking-glass-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install looking-glass-client
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install looking-glass-client
Install looking-glass-client 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 looking-glass-client
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install looking-glass-client
How To Uninstall looking-glass-client on Debian 12
To uninstall only the looking-glass-client
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove looking-glass-client
Uninstall looking-glass-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall looking-glass-client
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove looking-glass-client
Remove looking-glass-client Configurations and Data
To remove looking-glass-client
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge looking-glass-client
Remove looking-glass-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove looking-glass-client
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge looking-glass-client
Dependencies
looking-glass-client have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install looking-glass-client
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.