How To Install appdata-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install appdata-tools on Debian 9.
What is appdata-tools
appdata-tools is:
This is a transitional package to ease upgrades from appdata-tools to appstream-util.
It can safely be removed.
There are three methods to install appdata-tools on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install appdata-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install appdata-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install appdata-tools
Install appdata-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install appdata-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install appdata-tools
Install appdata-tools 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 appdata-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install appdata-tools
How To Uninstall appdata-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the appdata-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove appdata-tools
Uninstall appdata-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall appdata-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove appdata-tools
Remove appdata-tools Configurations and Data
To remove appdata-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge appdata-tools
Remove appdata-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove appdata-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge appdata-tools
Dependencies
appdata-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install appdata-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
