How To Install desktop-profiles on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install desktop-profiles on Debian 9.
What is desktop-profiles
desktop-profiles is:
The different Desktop environments in Debian all offer the possibility of customizing them through the use of profiles (sets of configuration and/or data files). Usually it’s also possible to stack configuration sets, combining the customizations provided by a number of profiles.
This package offers a standard cross-desktop way of managing the conditional activation of available profiles. As such it is useful to both administrators (allowing different configurations for different sets of users) and CDD’s (who want to have a configuration customized for a certain target group).
This package currently supports setting up profiles for KDE, GNOME, ROX, Xfce (>=4.2), GNUSTEP, UDE, and Freedesktop. Freedesktop profiles allow you to do a (growing amount of) cross-desktop customization, while the other profile kinds allow you to customize the respective desktop environments to various degrees.
There are three methods to install desktop-profiles 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 desktop-profiles Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install desktop-profiles using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install desktop-profiles
Install desktop-profiles Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install desktop-profiles using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install desktop-profiles
Install desktop-profiles 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 desktop-profiles using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install desktop-profiles
How To Uninstall desktop-profiles on Debian 9
To uninstall only the desktop-profiles package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove desktop-profiles
Uninstall desktop-profiles And Its Dependencies
To uninstall desktop-profiles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove desktop-profiles
Remove desktop-profiles Configurations and Data
To remove desktop-profiles configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge desktop-profiles
Remove desktop-profiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove desktop-profiles configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge desktop-profiles
Dependencies
desktop-profiles have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install desktop-profiles package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
