How To Install zutty on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zutty on Debian 12.
What is zutty
zutty is:
Zutty is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, functionally similar to several other X terminal emulators such as xterm, rxvt and others. It is also similar to other, much more modern, GPU-accelerated terminal emulators.
Zutty uses a radically simple, yet extremely efficient rendering implementation, coupled with a sufficiently complete feature set to make it useful for a wide range of users. It also offers high throughput with low latency, and strives to conform to relevant standards, either published or de-facto.
Notice this program requires your GPU OpenGL to support compute, fragment and vertex shaders, otherwise it will fail to start.
There are three methods to install zutty 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 zutty Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install zutty using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zutty
Install zutty Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zutty using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zutty
Install zutty 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 zutty using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zutty
How To Uninstall zutty on Debian 12
To uninstall only the zutty package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zutty
Uninstall zutty And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zutty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zutty
Remove zutty Configurations and Data
To remove zutty configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zutty
Remove zutty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zutty configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zutty
Dependencies
zutty have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zutty package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.