How To Install clipit on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install clipit on Debian 9. clipit is lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager

Introduction

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

What is clipit

clipit is:

Clipboard manager with features such as:

  • Save history of your last copied items
  • Search through the history
  • Global hotkeys for most used functions
  • Execute actions with clipboard items
  • Exclude specific items from history

ClipIt was forked from Parcellite and adds many bugfixes and features to the project. For a full list of changes see either the ChangeLog in the package or http://clipit.rspwn.com/changelog/

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install clipit

Install clipit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install clipit

Install clipit 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 clipit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clipit

How To Uninstall clipit on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove clipit

Uninstall clipit And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clipit

Remove clipit Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge clipit

Remove clipit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clipit

Dependencies

clipit have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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