How To Install wob on Debian 12

Learn how to install wob on Debian 12 with this tutorial. wob is lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress bar for wayland

Introduction

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

What is wob

wob is:

wob is a lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for wayland, inspired by xob - the X overlay bar.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wob

Install wob Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wob

Install wob 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 wob using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wob

How To Uninstall wob on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove wob

Uninstall wob And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wob

Remove wob Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wob

Remove wob configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wob

Dependencies

wob have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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