How To Install mrxvt-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrxvt-common on Debian 9.
What is mrxvt-common
mrxvt-common is:
Mrxvt is a multi-tabbed color vt102 terminal emulator for X Window system. It features multi-tab support, fast pseudo-transparent background, user supplied XPM/JPEG/PNG images for background, tinting, off-focus fading, text shadow, NeXT/Rxvt/Xterm/SGI/Plain style scrollbars, XIM and multi-languages (Chinese/Korea/Japanese), and logging.
Mrxvt does NOT require KDE or GNOME desktop environment.
This package contains the arch independent common files.
There are three methods to install mrxvt-common 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 mrxvt-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 mrxvt-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mrxvt-common
Install mrxvt-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mrxvt-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mrxvt-common
Install mrxvt-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 mrxvt-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mrxvt-common
How To Uninstall mrxvt-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mrxvt-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mrxvt-common
Uninstall mrxvt-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mrxvt-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrxvt-common
Remove mrxvt-common Configurations and Data
To remove mrxvt-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mrxvt-common
Remove mrxvt-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mrxvt-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrxvt-common
Dependencies
mrxvt-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrxvt-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.