How To Install mate-themes on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-themes on Debian 12.
What is mate-themes
mate-themes is:
This package contains the official desktop themes of the MATE desktop environment.
The themes provided for the MATE desktop partially resemble themes that are well known from GNOMEv2 desktops. However, the MATE team also prepared some new themes esp. for MATE (Menta, GreenLaguna, TraditionalGreen, TraditionalOk, and BlackMate).
There are three methods to install mate-themes 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-themes 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-themes using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-themes
Install mate-themes Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-themes using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-themes
Install mate-themes 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-themes using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-themes
How To Uninstall mate-themes on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mate-themes package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-themes
Uninstall mate-themes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-themes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-themes
Remove mate-themes Configurations and Data
To remove mate-themes configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-themes
Remove mate-themes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-themes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-themes
Dependencies
mate-themes have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-themes package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.