How To Install konq-plugins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install konq-plugins on Debian 9. konq-plugins is plugins for Konqueror, the KDE file/web/document browser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install konq-plugins on Debian 9.

What is konq-plugins

konq-plugins is:

This package contains a variety of useful plugins for Konqueror, the file manager, web browser and document viewer for KDE. Many of these plugins will appear in Konqueror’s Tools menu.

Web navigation plugins:

  • Akregator feed icon: allows one to add a feed to Akregator from Konqueror
  • Auto Refresh: refresh a webpage at a given rate
  • Bookmarklets: enables the use of bookmarklets, bookmarks containing JavaScript code
  • Document Relations: displays the document relations of a document
  • DOM Tree Viewer: view the DOM tree of the current page
  • KHTML Settings: fast way to change the JavaScript/images/cookies settings
  • Microformat Icon: displays an icon in the statusbar if the page contains a microformat
  • Search Bar: launches web searches from the Konqueror’s toolbar
  • Translate: language translation for the current page using Babelfish
  • UserAgent Changer: quick switch of the UserAgent used for the current site
  • Website Validators: CSS and HTML validation tools
  • Web Archiver: creates archives of websites
  • Crash manager: restores your opened tabs if Konqueror crashes (disabled by default as Konqueror has this feature builtin)

File management plugins:

  • Image Gallery: an easy way to generate a HTML image gallery
  • File Size View (kpart): a proportional view of directories and files based on file size
  • Transform Image (service menu): rotate and flip images
  • Convert To (service menu): convert and image to another format
  • Directory Filter (dolphin): filter directory views

This package is part of the KDE base applications module.

There are three methods to install konq-plugins 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 konq-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install konq-plugins

Install konq-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install konq-plugins

Install konq-plugins 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 konq-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install konq-plugins

How To Uninstall konq-plugins on Debian 9

To uninstall only the konq-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove konq-plugins

Uninstall konq-plugins And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove konq-plugins

Remove konq-plugins Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge konq-plugins

Remove konq-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge konq-plugins

Dependencies

konq-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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