How To Install marco-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install marco-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. marco-common is lightweight GTK+ window manager for MATE (common files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install marco-common on Debian 10.

What is marco-common

marco-common is:

Marco is a small window manager, using GTK+ to do everything. It is developed mainly for the MATE Desktop.

This package contains the architecture independent files.

There are three methods to install marco-common 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 marco-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install marco-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install marco-common

Install marco-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install marco-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install marco-common

Install marco-common 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 marco-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install marco-common

How To Uninstall marco-common on Debian 10

To uninstall only the marco-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove marco-common

Uninstall marco-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall marco-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove marco-common

Remove marco-common Configurations and Data

To remove marco-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge marco-common

Remove marco-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove marco-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge marco-common

Dependencies

marco-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install marco-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.