How To Install chemical-mime-data on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chemical-mime-data on Debian 9.

What is chemical-mime-data

chemical-mime-data is:

Chemical MIME type integration for KDE, GNOME and possibly ROX desktops, based on Henry Rzepa’s list at http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/. Support is granted for KDE 3.x, GNOME 2.x and freedesktop.org systems.

There are three methods to install chemical-mime-data 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 chemical-mime-data Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install chemical-mime-data

Install chemical-mime-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install chemical-mime-data using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install chemical-mime-data

Install chemical-mime-data 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 chemical-mime-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chemical-mime-data

How To Uninstall chemical-mime-data on Debian 9

To uninstall only the chemical-mime-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chemical-mime-data

Uninstall chemical-mime-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chemical-mime-data

Remove chemical-mime-data Configurations and Data

To remove chemical-mime-data configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chemical-mime-data

Remove chemical-mime-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chemical-mime-data

Dependencies

chemical-mime-data have the following dependencies:

• shared-mime-info

References

• chemical-mime-data website

Summary

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