How To Install lxappearance on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxappearance on Debian 10.
What is lxappearance
lxappearance is:
LXAppearance is a GUI application for the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE).
It is a new feature-rich GTK+ theme switcher able to change GTK+ themes, icon themes, and fonts used by applications. GNOME/KDE/Xfce user may use build-in theme, this works for GTK+ based lightweight desktop Environment.
Features:
- Choose GTK+ theme
- Choose icon theme
- Install new icon theme
- Choose their favorite font
- Choose toolbar style
- See changes immediately in preview area
There are three methods to install lxappearance 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 lxappearance Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lxappearance using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lxappearance
Install lxappearance Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lxappearance using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lxappearance
Install lxappearance 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 lxappearance using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lxappearance
How To Uninstall lxappearance on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lxappearance package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lxappearance
Uninstall lxappearance And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lxappearance and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxappearance
Remove lxappearance Configurations and Data
To remove lxappearance configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lxappearance
Remove lxappearance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lxappearance configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxappearance
Dependencies
lxappearance have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libx11-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxappearance package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.