How To Install mate-control-center on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-control-center on Debian 12.
What is mate-control-center
mate-control-center is:
The MATE control center contains configuration applets for the MATE desktop, allowing to set accessibility configuration, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other MATE parameters.
It also contains a front end to these applets, which can also be accessed with the MATE panel or the Caja file manager.
There are three methods to install mate-control-center on Debian 12. 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-control-center 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-control-center using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-control-center
Install mate-control-center Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-control-center using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-control-center
Install mate-control-center 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-control-center using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-control-center
How To Uninstall mate-control-center on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mate-control-center package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-control-center
Uninstall mate-control-center And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-control-center and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-control-center
Remove mate-control-center Configurations and Data
To remove mate-control-center configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-control-center
Remove mate-control-center configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-control-center configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-control-center
Dependencies
mate-control-center have the following dependencies:
- caja-common
- desktop-file-utils
- gsettings-desktop-schemas
- libglib2.0-bin
- libmate-slab0
- libmate-window-settings1
- marco-common
- mate-control-center-common
- mate-desktop
- mate-icon-theme
- mate-menus
- mate-settings-daemon
- libaccountsservice0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libdconf1
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libmarco-private2
- libmate-desktop-2-17
- libmatekbd4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
- libx11-6
- libxcursor1
- libxi6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-control-center package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
