How To Install ark on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on Debian 9.
What is ark
ark is:
Ark manages various archive formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, rar and zip, as well as CD-ROM images. Ark can be used to browse, extract, create, and modify archives.
This package is part of the KDE SC utilities module.
There are three methods to install ark 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 ark Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ark using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ark
Install ark Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ark using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ark
Install ark 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 ark using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ark
How To Uninstall ark on Debian 9
To uninstall only the ark package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ark
Uninstall ark And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ark and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ark
Remove ark Configurations and Data
To remove ark configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ark
Remove ark configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ark configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ark
Dependencies
ark have the following dependencies:
- kio
- libarchive13
- libc6
- libkf5archive5
- libkf5completion5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configgui5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5crash5
- libkf5dbusaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5iconthemes5
- libkf5jobwidgets5
- libkf5kiocore5
- libkf5kiofilewidgets5
- libkf5kiowidgets5
- libkf5parts5
- libkf5pty5
- libkf5service-bin
- libkf5service5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ark package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
