How To Install mate-applets on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-applets on Debian 10.
What is mate-applets
mate-applets is:
accessx-status: indicates keyboard accessibility settings, including the current state of the keyboard, if those features are in use.
Battstat: monitors the power subsystem on a laptop.
Character palette: provides a convenient way to access non-standard characters, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks.
MATE CPUFreq Applet: CPU frequency scaling monitor
Drivemount: lets you mount and unmount drives and file systems.
Geyes: pair of eyes which follow the mouse pointer around the screen.
Keyboard layout switcher: lets you assign different keyboard layouts for different locales.
Invest: downloads current stock quotes from the Internet and displays the quotes in a scrolling display in the applet. The applet downloads the stock information from Yahoo! Finance.
Netspeed: network traffic monitor applet.
System monitor: CPU, memory, network, swap file and resource.
Trash: lets you drag items to the trash folder.
Weather report: downloads weather information from the U.S National Weather Service (NWS) servers, including the Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN).
There are three methods to install mate-applets 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 mate-applets Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-applets using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-applets
Install mate-applets Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-applets using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-applets
Install mate-applets 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 mate-applets using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-applets
How To Uninstall mate-applets on Debian 10
To uninstall only the mate-applets package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-applets
Uninstall mate-applets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-applets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-applets
Remove mate-applets Configurations and Data
To remove mate-applets configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-applets
Remove mate-applets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-applets configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-applets
Dependencies
mate-applets have the following dependencies:
- gsettings-desktop-schemas
- gvfs
- mate-applets-common
- mate-panel
- python
- python-gi
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libcpufreq0
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libgtksourceview-3.0-1
- libgtop-2.0-11
- libgucharmap-2-90-7
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-applets package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.