How To Install xterm on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xterm on Debian 12.
What is xterm
xterm is:
xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly. This version implements ISO/ANSI colors and most of the control sequences used by DEC VT220 terminals.
This package provides four commands: xterm, which is the traditional terminal emulator; uxterm, which is a wrapper around xterm that is intelligent about locale settings (especially those which use the UTF-8 character encoding), but which requires the luit program from the luit package; koi8rxterm, a wrapper similar to uxterm for locales that use the KOI8-R character set; and lxterm, a simple wrapper that chooses which of the previous commands to execute based on the user’s locale settings.
A complete list of control sequences supported by the X terminal emulator is provided in /usr/share/doc/xterm.
The xterm program uses bitmap images provided by the xbitmaps package.
Those interested in using koi8rxterm will likely want to install the xfonts-cyrillic package as well.
There are three methods to install xterm 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 xterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xterm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xterm
Install xterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xterm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xterm
Install xterm 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 xterm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xterm
How To Uninstall xterm on Debian 12
To uninstall only the xterm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xterm
Uninstall xterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xterm
Remove xterm Configurations and Data
To remove xterm configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xterm
Remove xterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xterm
Dependencies
xterm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xterm package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.