How To Install variety on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install variety
on Debian 10.
What is variety
variety is:
Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.
Where supported, Variety sits as a tray icon to allow easy pausing and resuming. Otherwise, its desktop entry menu provides a similar set of options.
You can also install the following (suggested) packages to enhance Variety’s functionality on certain desktop setups:
- feh | nitrogen: used for wallpaper changing on i3, openbox, and dwm
- gnome-shell-extension-appindicator | gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus: adds tray icon / indicator support to GNOME Shell, so that Variety’s tray icon can be displayed
There are three methods to install variety
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 variety Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install variety
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install variety
Install variety Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install variety
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install variety
Install variety 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 variety
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install variety
How To Uninstall variety on Debian 10
To uninstall only the variety
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove variety
Uninstall variety And Its Dependencies
To uninstall variety
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove variety
Remove variety Configurations and Data
To remove variety
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge variety
Remove variety configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove variety
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge variety
Dependencies
variety have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
- gir1.2-gexiv2-0.10
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- gir1.2-notify-0.7
- gir1.2-pango-1.0
- imagemagick
- python3-bs4
- python3-lxml
- python3-cairo
- python3-configobj
- python3-dbus
- python3-gi
- python3-gi-cairo
- python3-pil
- python3-pkg-resources
- python3-requests
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install variety
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.