How To Install metacity-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install metacity-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. metacity-common is shared files for the Metacity window manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity-common on Debian 10.

What is metacity-common

metacity-common is:

Metacity is a small window manager, using GTK+ to do everything.

As the author says, metacity is a “Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.”

This package contains the shared files.

There are three methods to install metacity-common 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 metacity-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install metacity-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install metacity-common

Install metacity-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install metacity-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install metacity-common

Install metacity-common 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 metacity-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install metacity-common

How To Uninstall metacity-common on Debian 10

To uninstall only the metacity-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove metacity-common

Uninstall metacity-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall metacity-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove metacity-common

Remove metacity-common Configurations and Data

To remove metacity-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge metacity-common

Remove metacity-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove metacity-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metacity-common

Dependencies

metacity-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.