How To Install shellex on Debian 10

Learn how to install shellex on Debian 10 with this tutorial. shellex is shell-based launcher

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install shellex on Debian 10.

What is shellex

shellex is:

shellex is supposed to be a dmenu-style launcher with a lot more features and a lot simpler design. It launches a shell (currently zsh) and shows it in a small terminal, wrapping every command with a little bit of extra magic (redirecting stdout, stderr, disowning and closing the shell) to get more typical launcher-behaviour.

This gives you a simple launcher with tab-completion and other shell-features, configurable in shell.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install shellex

Install shellex Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install shellex

Install shellex 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 shellex using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install shellex

How To Uninstall shellex on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove shellex

Uninstall shellex And Its Dependencies

To uninstall shellex and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove shellex

Remove shellex Configurations and Data

To remove shellex configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge shellex

Remove shellex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shellex

Dependencies

shellex have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install shellex package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.