How To Install mess-desktop-entries on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mess-desktop-entries
on Debian 12.
What is mess-desktop-entries
mess-desktop-entries is:
This is a collection of desktop entries to handle ROM files for certain game consoles. They use the Multiple Emulator Super System (MESS) to start a game by simply double-clicking the ROM file from a file manager.
There are three methods to install mess-desktop-entries
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 mess-desktop-entries Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mess-desktop-entries
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mess-desktop-entries
Install mess-desktop-entries Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mess-desktop-entries
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mess-desktop-entries
Install mess-desktop-entries 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 mess-desktop-entries
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mess-desktop-entries
How To Uninstall mess-desktop-entries on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mess-desktop-entries
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mess-desktop-entries
Uninstall mess-desktop-entries And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mess-desktop-entries
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mess-desktop-entries
Remove mess-desktop-entries Configurations and Data
To remove mess-desktop-entries
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mess-desktop-entries
Remove mess-desktop-entries configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mess-desktop-entries
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mess-desktop-entries
Dependencies
mess-desktop-entries have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mess-desktop-entries
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.