How To Install pterm on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pterm
on Debian 11.
What is pterm
pterm is:
This is an X terminal emulator based on the popular Windows SSH client, PuTTY. It supports xterm escape sequences, plus some Linux console sequences for colour palette configuration and some DECterm sequences for title bar control, and with an appropriate font it supports the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. It also has some nifty features like rectangular selection and NetHack keypad mode.
There are three methods to install pterm
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 pterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pterm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pterm
Install pterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pterm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pterm
Install pterm 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 pterm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pterm
How To Uninstall pterm on Debian 11
To uninstall only the pterm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pterm
Uninstall pterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pterm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pterm
Remove pterm Configurations and Data
To remove pterm
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pterm
Remove pterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pterm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pterm
Dependencies
pterm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pterm
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.