How to Install and Uninstall awesome Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "awesome" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install awesome on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "awesome" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall awesome on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the awesome package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: awesome
Version: 4.3-4
Installed-Size: 2915
Maintainer: Reiner Herrmann
Architecture: amd64
Provides: notification-daemon, x-window-manager
Depends: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, gir1.2-freedesktop, gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0, gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-pango-1.0, libcairo-gobject2, lua-lgi (>= 0.9.2), menu, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.12.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.30.0), liblua5.3-0, libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.10), libx11-6, libxcb-cursor0 (>= 0.0.99), libxcb-icccm4 (>= 0.4.1), libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.4.0), libxcb-randr0 (>= 1.12), libxcb-render0, libxcb-shape0, libxcb-util0 (>= 0.3.8), libxcb-xinerama0, libxcb-xkb1, libxcb-xrm0 (>= 0.0.0), libxcb-xtest0, libxcb1 (>= 1.6), libxdg-basedir1, libxkbcommon-x11-0 (>= 0.5.0), libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0)
Recommends: feh, rlwrap, x11-xserver-utils, awesome-extra, gir1.2-gtk-3.0
Suggests: awesome-doc
Description: highly configurable X window manager
Description-md5: 692af96918d4ae3a55f215394ce2421a
Homepage: https://awesomewm.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c, implemented-in::lua, interface::graphical,
interface::x11, role::program, uitoolkit::xlib, x11::window-manager
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/awesome/awesome_4.3-4_amd64.deb
Size: 941004
MD5sum: 61100881e71b1316839a9e64c7335e2a
SHA256: 156c89c8652af508614614d5ba74b93feab02d61312b4e3bb723be07e369ce39