How To Install pympress on Debian 12

Learn how to install pympress on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pympress is simple and powerful dual-screen PDF reader

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pympress on Debian 12.

What is pympress

pympress is:

Pympress is a little PDF reader written in Python using Poppler for PDF rendering and GTK+ for the GUI.

It is designed to be a dual-screen reader used for presentations and public talks, with two displays: the Content window for a projector, and the Presenter window for your laptop.

It comes with many great features:

  • supports embedded videos
  • text annotations displayed in the presenter window
  • natively supports beamer’s notes on second screen!

There are three methods to install pympress 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 pympress Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pympress using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pympress

Install pympress Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pympress

Install pympress 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 pympress using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pympress

How To Uninstall pympress on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove pympress

Uninstall pympress And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pympress and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pympress

Remove pympress Configurations and Data

To remove pympress configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pympress

Remove pympress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pympress

Dependencies

pympress have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pympress package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.