How To Install pngphoon on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pngphoon on Debian 10.
What is pngphoon
pngphoon is:
This program is intended as a successor to the xphoon program (X PHase of mOON). xphoon is a program that displays the actual phase of the moon on the X11 root window. Nowadays many desktop systems like KDE hide the X11 root window with a background image of their own, so the xphoon output is not visible. When called, pngphoon creates a PNG image with the current phase of the moon. It can be used with window managers that allow using a command to provide a background image.
There are three methods to install pngphoon 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 pngphoon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pngphoon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pngphoon
Install pngphoon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pngphoon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pngphoon
Install pngphoon 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 pngphoon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pngphoon
How To Uninstall pngphoon on Debian 10
To uninstall only the pngphoon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pngphoon
Uninstall pngphoon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pngphoon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pngphoon
Remove pngphoon Configurations and Data
To remove pngphoon configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pngphoon
Remove pngphoon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pngphoon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pngphoon
Dependencies
pngphoon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pngphoon package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.