How To Install education-tasks on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-tasks on Debian 9. education-tasks is Debian Edu tasks for tasksel

Introduction

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

What is education-tasks

education-tasks is:

This package provides Debian Edu tasks in tasksel.

There are three methods to install education-tasks 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-tasks 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-tasks using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install education-tasks

Install education-tasks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install education-tasks

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

sudo aptitude -y install education-tasks

How To Uninstall education-tasks on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove education-tasks

Uninstall education-tasks And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-tasks

Remove education-tasks Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge education-tasks

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

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

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

Dependencies

education-tasks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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