How To Install notify-osd on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install notify-osd
on Debian 11.
What is notify-osd
notify-osd is:
The Desktop Notifications framework provides a standard way of doing passive pop-up notifications on the Linux desktop. These are designed to notify the user of something without interrupting their work with a dialog box that they must close. Passive popups can automatically disappear after a short period of time.
There are three methods to install notify-osd
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 notify-osd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install notify-osd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install notify-osd
Install notify-osd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install notify-osd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install notify-osd
Install notify-osd 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 notify-osd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install notify-osd
How To Uninstall notify-osd on Debian 11
To uninstall only the notify-osd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove notify-osd
Uninstall notify-osd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall notify-osd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove notify-osd
Remove notify-osd Configurations and Data
To remove notify-osd
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge notify-osd
Remove notify-osd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove notify-osd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge notify-osd
Dependencies
notify-osd have the following dependencies:
- gsettings-desktop-schemas
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpixman-1-0
- libwnck-3-0
- libx11-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install notify-osd
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.