How To Install qapt-utils on Debian 10

Learn how to install qapt-utils on Debian 10 with this tutorial. qapt-utils is complete collection of QApt package management utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qapt-utils on Debian 10.

What is qapt-utils

qapt-utils is:

QApt is a collection of tools and a library providing a wrapper around APT. The intention is to ease the use of APT in Qt-based programs.

This is a metapackage depending on all of QApt’s extra package management utilities.

There are three methods to install qapt-utils on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install qapt-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install qapt-utils

Install qapt-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install qapt-utils

Install qapt-utils 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 qapt-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qapt-utils

How To Uninstall qapt-utils on Debian 10

To uninstall only the qapt-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qapt-utils

Uninstall qapt-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall qapt-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qapt-utils

Remove qapt-utils Configurations and Data

To remove qapt-utils configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge qapt-utils

Remove qapt-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qapt-utils

Dependencies

qapt-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qapt-utils package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.