How To Install mutter on Debian 10

Learn how to install mutter on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mutter is lightweight GTK+ window manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter on Debian 10.

What is `mutter`

mutter is:

Mutter is a small window manager, using GTK+ and Clutter to do everything.

Mutter is the clutter-based evolution of Metacity, which, as the author says, 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 core binaries.

There are three methods to install mutter 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 mutter 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mutter

Install mutter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mutter using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mutter

Install mutter 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mutter

How To Uninstall mutter on Debian 10

To uninstall only the mutter package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mutter

Uninstall mutter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mutter

Remove mutter Configurations and Data

To remove mutter configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mutter

Remove mutter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mutter

Dependencies

mutter have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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