How To Install phosh on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phosh on Debian 12.
What is phosh
phosh is:
Phosh is a graphical shell for Wayland compositors speaking the layer-surface protocol and aimed at mobile devices like smart phones and tablets using touch based inputs and small screens.
It’s part of the Phosh Mobile Environment based on GNOME/GTK. For the full stack see the phosh-full and phosh-core metapackages.
There are three methods to install phosh on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install phosh Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install phosh using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phosh
Install phosh Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phosh using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phosh
Install phosh 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 phosh using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phosh
How To Uninstall phosh on Debian 12
To uninstall only the phosh package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phosh
Uninstall phosh And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phosh and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phosh
Remove phosh Configurations and Data
To remove phosh configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phosh
Remove phosh configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phosh configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phosh
Dependencies
phosh have the following dependencies:
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcallaudio-0-1
- libecal-2.0-2
- libedataserver-1.2-27
- libfeedback-0.0-0
- libfribidi0
- libgcr-base-3-1
- libgcr-ui-3-1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnome-desktop-3-20
- libgtk-3-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- libhandy-1-0
- libical3
- libnm0
- libpam0g
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpolkit-agent-1-0
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
- libpulse-mainloop-glib0
- libpulse0
- libsecret-1-0
- libsystemd0
- libupower-glib3
- libwayland-client0
- fonts-lato
- gnome-shell-common
- gsettings-desktop-schemas
- phoc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phosh package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.