apt-get Install dmenu

How do you install dmenu in Linux using apt-get command?

How to Install dmenu with apt-get?

Here is a tutorial to learn how to install dmenu using apt-get command.

Step 1: Open terminal with su access and enter the command as shown below:
apt-get install dmenu -y

Step 2: After completion, the install command exits and instructs the user to restart the running instances of dmenu if it is running already.

Result of the Command Execution shown below:

root@hiox:~ apt-get install dmenu -y
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Note, selecting dwm tools instead of dmenu
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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  libstdc++6 4.4 dev gnomine
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dwm dwm tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dwm dwm tools
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/77.5kB of archives.
After this operation, 393kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package dwm.
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Unpacking dwm (from .../archives/dwm_5.7.2 1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package dwm tools.
Unpacking dwm tools (from .../dwm tools_31 1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man db ...
Setting up dwm (5.7.2 1) ...

Setting up dwm tools (31 1) ...
root@hiox:~

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