How To Install eclipse-egit on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-egit
on Debian 9.
What is eclipse-egit
eclipse-egit is:
The EGit project is implementing Eclipse tooling on top of the JGit Java implementation of Git.
There are three methods to install eclipse-egit
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 eclipse-egit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-egit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eclipse-egit
Install eclipse-egit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-egit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eclipse-egit
Install eclipse-egit 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 eclipse-egit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eclipse-egit
How To Uninstall eclipse-egit on Debian 9
To uninstall only the eclipse-egit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eclipse-egit
Uninstall eclipse-egit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eclipse-egit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eclipse-egit
Remove eclipse-egit Configurations and Data
To remove eclipse-egit
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eclipse-egit
Remove eclipse-egit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eclipse-egit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eclipse-egit
Dependencies
eclipse-egit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-egit
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.