How To Install lxterminal on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxterminal on Debian 10.
What is lxterminal
lxterminal is:
LXTerminal is a VTE-based terminal emulator for the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE).
It supports multiple tabs and has only minimal dependencies thus being completely desktop-independent. In order to reduce memory usage and increase the performance, all instances of the terminal are sharing a single process.
There are three methods to install lxterminal 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 lxterminal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lxterminal using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lxterminal
Install lxterminal Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lxterminal using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lxterminal
Install lxterminal 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 lxterminal using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lxterminal
How To Uninstall lxterminal on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lxterminal package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lxterminal
Uninstall lxterminal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lxterminal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxterminal
Remove lxterminal Configurations and Data
To remove lxterminal configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lxterminal
Remove lxterminal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lxterminal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxterminal
Dependencies
lxterminal have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnutls30
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpcre2-8-0
- libvte-2.91-0
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxterminal package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.