How To Install xscreensaver-gl on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xscreensaver-gl on Debian 12.
What is xscreensaver-gl
xscreensaver-gl is:
XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for X11, containing more than 200 screen savers.
This package contains a small selection of 3D (OpenGL) screen saver modules from the xscreensaver collection. This package can be used by xscreensaver and also some other screensaver engines.
This is the set of GL screensavers shipped by default: antinspect, antspotlight, atunnel, beats, blinkbox, bubble3d, chompytower, circuit, cityflow, covid19, crumbler, cubestack, cubestorm, cubetwist, discoball, dymaxionmap, endgame, energystream, engine, esper, etruscanvenus, flipflop, flipscreen3d, flyingtoasters, gears, geodesic, geodesicgears, gflux, gibson, glblur, glcells, gleidescope, glknots, glmatrix, glschool, glslideshow, glsnake, gltext, headroom, hexstrut, hextrail, hydrostat, hypertorus, jigglypuff, kaleidocycle, lavalite, lockward, mapscroller, maze3d, mirrorblob, moebius, moebiusgears, molecule, morph3d, nakagin, peepers, pipes, polyhedra, polytopes, projectiveplane, pulsar, quasicrystal, queens, raverhoop, razzledazzle, romanboy, sierpinski3d, sonar, sphereeversion, spheremonics, splitflap, splodesic, squirtorus, stonerview, superquadrics, topblock, unicrud, vigilance, voronoi, winduprobot.
More display modes can be found in the xscreensaver-data, xscreensaver-data-extra and xscreensaver-gl-extra packages.
There are three methods to install xscreensaver-gl 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 xscreensaver-gl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xscreensaver-gl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xscreensaver-gl
Install xscreensaver-gl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xscreensaver-gl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xscreensaver-gl
Install xscreensaver-gl 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 xscreensaver-gl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xscreensaver-gl
How To Uninstall xscreensaver-gl on Debian 12
To uninstall only the xscreensaver-gl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver-gl
Uninstall xscreensaver-gl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xscreensaver-gl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xscreensaver-gl
Remove xscreensaver-gl Configurations and Data
To remove xscreensaver-gl configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xscreensaver-gl
Remove xscreensaver-gl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xscreensaver-gl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xscreensaver-gl
Dependencies
xscreensaver-gl have the following dependencies:
- libwww-perl
- libcap2-bin
- libc6
- libegl1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libgl1
- libglib2.0-0
- libglu1-mesa
- libx11-6
- libxext6
- libxft2
- libxt6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xscreensaver-gl package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
