How To Install mutter-common on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter-common on Debian 11.
What is mutter-common
mutter-common is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the shared files.
There are three methods to install mutter-common on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mutter-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 mutter-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mutter-common
Install mutter-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mutter-common
Install mutter-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 mutter-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mutter-common
How To Uninstall mutter-common on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mutter-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mutter-common
Uninstall mutter-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mutter-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mutter-common
Remove mutter-common Configurations and Data
To remove mutter-common configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mutter-common
Remove mutter-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mutter-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mutter-common
Dependencies
mutter-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter-common package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
