How To Install mcomix on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcomix on Debian 10.
What is mcomix
mcomix is:
MComix is an user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR, 7Zip or tar archives as well as plain image files. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings, and runs on both Linux and Windows.
MComix is a fork of the Comix project, and aims to add bug fixes and stability improvements after Comix development came to a halt in late 2009.
There are three methods to install mcomix 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 mcomix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mcomix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mcomix
Install mcomix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mcomix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mcomix
Install mcomix 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 mcomix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mcomix
How To Uninstall mcomix on Debian 10
To uninstall only the mcomix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mcomix
Uninstall mcomix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mcomix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mcomix
Remove mcomix Configurations and Data
To remove mcomix configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mcomix
Remove mcomix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mcomix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mcomix
Dependencies
mcomix have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcomix package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.