How To Install mlterm on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mlterm on Debian 10.
What is mlterm
mlterm is:
This is a terminal emulator for X Window System, which supports various encodings including ISO-8859-[1-11,13-16], TCVN5712, VISCII, TIS-620 (same as ISO-8859-11), KOI8-{R,U,T}, CP{1251,1255}, GEORGEAN-PS, EUC-JP, EUC-JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP{,1,2,3}, Shift_JIS, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-KR, EUC-KR, UHC, JOHAB, EUC-CN (aka GB2312), GBK, ISO-2022-CN, Big5, EUC-TW, HZ, UTF-8, and GB18030.
Doublewidth characters for east Asian, combining characters for Thai, Vietnamese, and other diacritics, BiDi (bi-directionality) for Arabic and Hebrew as well as Arabic shaping are all supported. Though mlterm supports Indic complex languages such as Hindi, this Debian package is not compiled with Indic support.
Since mlterm checks the current locale and selects appropriate encoding, you don’t need to configure mlterm to display your language and encoding.
mlterm also supports unique features such as scrollbar API, multiple windows, multiple XIM, anti-alias using FreeType and Xft, and so on.
There are three methods to install mlterm 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 mlterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mlterm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mlterm
Install mlterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mlterm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mlterm
Install mlterm 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 mlterm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mlterm
How To Uninstall mlterm on Debian 10
To uninstall only the mlterm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mlterm
Uninstall mlterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mlterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mlterm
Remove mlterm Configurations and Data
To remove mlterm configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mlterm
Remove mlterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mlterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mlterm
Dependencies
mlterm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mlterm package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.