How To Install plasma-discover-backend-snap on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-backend-snap on Debian 11.
What is plasma-discover-backend-snap
plasma-discover-backend-snap is:
Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace. It helps users easily and quickly find applications and other software they might want to install.
This package contains a backend for the Ubuntu Core Snappy application bundling system.
There are three methods to install plasma-discover-backend-snap on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install plasma-discover-backend-snap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-backend-snap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-discover-backend-snap
Install plasma-discover-backend-snap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-backend-snap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-discover-backend-snap
Install plasma-discover-backend-snap 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 plasma-discover-backend-snap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-discover-backend-snap
How To Uninstall plasma-discover-backend-snap on Debian 11
To uninstall only the plasma-discover-backend-snap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-discover-backend-snap
Uninstall plasma-discover-backend-snap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-discover-backend-snap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-discover-backend-snap
Remove plasma-discover-backend-snap Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-discover-backend-snap configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-discover-backend-snap
Remove plasma-discover-backend-snap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-discover-backend-snap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-discover-backend-snap
Dependencies
plasma-discover-backend-snap have the following dependencies:
- plasma-discover
- libc6
- libkf5authcore5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libsnapd-qt1
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-backend-snap package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
