How To Install education-services on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-services on Debian 9. education-services is Debian Edu services for educational institutions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-services on Debian 9.

What is education-services

education-services is:

This metapackage depends on several applications providing useful infrastructure and services in an educational context: e-learning services, online documentation repository, web content filter…

There are three methods to install education-services 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 education-services Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install education-services

Install education-services Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install education-services

Install education-services 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 education-services using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install education-services

How To Uninstall education-services on Debian 9

To uninstall only the education-services package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove education-services

Uninstall education-services And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-services

Remove education-services Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge education-services

Remove education-services configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge education-services

Dependencies

education-services have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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