How To Install tritium on Debian 10

Learn how to install tritium on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tritium is tabbed/tiling window manager

Introduction

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

What is tritium

tritium is:

tritium is a tiling/tabbed window manager for the X Window System inspired by the ion3 window manager. It was written completely from scratch in Python and shares no actual code with ion3.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tritium

Install tritium Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tritium

Install tritium 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 tritium using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tritium

How To Uninstall tritium on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove tritium

Uninstall tritium And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tritium

Remove tritium Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tritium

Remove tritium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tritium

Dependencies

tritium have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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