How To Install mate-indicator-applet on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-indicator-applet on Debian 11.
What is mate-indicator-applet
mate-indicator-applet is:
A small applet to display information from various applications consistently in the panel.
The indicator applet exposes Ayatana Indicators in the MATE Panel. Ayatana Indicators are an initiative by Canonical to provide crisp and clean system and application status indication. They take the form of an icon and associated menu, displayed (usually) in the desktop panel. Existing indicators include the Message Menu, Battery Menu and Sound menu.
There are three methods to install mate-indicator-applet on Debian 11. 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-indicator-applet 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-indicator-applet using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-indicator-applet
Install mate-indicator-applet Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-indicator-applet using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-indicator-applet
Install mate-indicator-applet 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-indicator-applet using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-indicator-applet
How To Uninstall mate-indicator-applet on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mate-indicator-applet package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-indicator-applet
Uninstall mate-indicator-applet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-indicator-applet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-indicator-applet
Remove mate-indicator-applet Configurations and Data
To remove mate-indicator-applet configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-indicator-applet
Remove mate-indicator-applet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-indicator-applet configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-indicator-applet
Dependencies
mate-indicator-applet have the following dependencies:
- mate-indicator-applet-common
- mate-panel
- libatk1.0-0
- libayatana-ido3-0.4-0
- libayatana-indicator3-7
- libc6
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libmate-panel-applet-4-1
- libx11-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-indicator-applet package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.