How To Install kdeartwork on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdeartwork on Debian 9. kdeartwork is themes, styles and other artwork from the official KDE release

Introduction

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

What is kdeartwork

kdeartwork is:

KDE is produced by an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.

This metapackage includes a collection of additional artwork provided with the official release of KDE.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kdeartwork

Install kdeartwork Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kdeartwork

Install kdeartwork 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 kdeartwork using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kdeartwork

How To Uninstall kdeartwork on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove kdeartwork

Uninstall kdeartwork And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdeartwork

Remove kdeartwork Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kdeartwork

Remove kdeartwork configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdeartwork

Dependencies

kdeartwork have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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