How To Install blogilo on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install blogilo on Debian 9. blogilo is graphical blogging client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blogilo on Debian 9.

What is blogilo

blogilo is:

Blogilo is a Free/Open Source Blogging client, focused on simplicity and usability. Currently featured:

  • A full featured WYSIWYG editor and an HTML editor.
  • Previewing your post with your blog style, like when you are visiting it at your blog.
  • Support for Blogger1.0, MetaWeblog, MovableType (Wordpress supports all of these) and Google GData (used on Blogspot.com blogs) APIs.
  • Support for creating/modifying/deleting posts.
  • Support for creating drafts and scheduled posts.
  • Support for uploading media files to your blog (only on supported APIs e.g. MetaWeblog and MovableType).
  • Support for fetching your recent blog entries.
  • Support for adding images to post from your system. It will upload them on Submitting post to blog (only on supported APIs e.g. MetaWeblog and MovableType).
  • Support for saving local entries before publishing.
  • Saving your writing copy to prevent data loss, at configurable intervals.
  • Internal auto spell checker. (KDE spell checker used so most of languages are supported.)

This package is part of the KDE PIM module.

There are three methods to install blogilo 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 blogilo Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install blogilo using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install blogilo

Install blogilo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install blogilo using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install blogilo

Install blogilo 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 blogilo using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install blogilo

How To Uninstall blogilo on Debian 9

To uninstall only the blogilo package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove blogilo

Uninstall blogilo And Its Dependencies

To uninstall blogilo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove blogilo

Remove blogilo Configurations and Data

To remove blogilo configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge blogilo

Remove blogilo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove blogilo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blogilo

Dependencies

blogilo have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blogilo package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.