How To Install luakit on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install luakit on Debian 11.
What is luakit
luakit is:
Luakit is a highly-configurable browser framework based on WebKitGTK+. It is very fast and extensible by Lua. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people with too much time on their hands who want to have fine-grained control over their web browser’s behaviour and interface.
There are three methods to install luakit 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 luakit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install luakit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install luakit
Install luakit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install luakit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install luakit
Install luakit 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 luakit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install luakit
How To Uninstall luakit on Debian 11
To uninstall only the luakit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove luakit
Uninstall luakit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall luakit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove luakit
Remove luakit Configurations and Data
To remove luakit configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge luakit
Remove luakit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove luakit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge luakit
Dependencies
luakit have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
- libluajit-5.1-2
- libpango-1.0-0
- libsoup2.4-1
- libsqlite3-0
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
- lua5.1-filesystem
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install luakit package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.