How To Install mate-tweak on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-tweak
on Debian 9.
What is mate-tweak
mate-tweak is:
Configures some aspects of the MATE desktop not exposed via the MATE Control Center applets.
Settings that can be handled via MATE Tweak:
- Show/hide standard desktop icons
- Panel fine-tuning (icon visibility, in menus and on buttons, icon size, button labelling, contex menus, etc.)
- Window manager fine-tuning
There are three methods to install mate-tweak
on Debian 9. 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-tweak 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-tweak
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-tweak
Install mate-tweak Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-tweak
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-tweak
Install mate-tweak 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-tweak
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-tweak
How To Uninstall mate-tweak on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mate-tweak
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-tweak
Uninstall mate-tweak And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-tweak
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-tweak
Remove mate-tweak Configurations and Data
To remove mate-tweak
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-tweak
Remove mate-tweak configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-tweak
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-tweak
Dependencies
mate-tweak have the following dependencies:
- compton
- dconf-cli
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- gir1.2-notify-0.7
- mate-desktop-common
- mesa-utils
- python-gobject-2
- python3
- python3-gi
- python3-psutil
- python3-setproctitle
- x11-xserver-utils
- zenity
- python3-pkg-resources
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-tweak
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.