How To Install seed-webkit2 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install seed-webkit2 on Debian 10.
What is seed-webkit2
seed-webkit2 is:
Seed is a library and interpreter, dynamically bridging (through GObjectIntrospection) the WebKit JavaScriptCore engine, with the GNOME platform. Seed serves as something which enables you to write standalone applications in JavaScript, or easily enable your application to be extensible in JavaScript.
This package contains the interpreter itself, for use by the scripts using seed as a shebang.
There are three methods to install seed-webkit2 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 seed-webkit2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install seed-webkit2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install seed-webkit2
Install seed-webkit2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install seed-webkit2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install seed-webkit2
Install seed-webkit2 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 seed-webkit2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install seed-webkit2
How To Uninstall seed-webkit2 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the seed-webkit2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove seed-webkit2
Uninstall seed-webkit2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall seed-webkit2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove seed-webkit2
Remove seed-webkit2 Configurations and Data
To remove seed-webkit2 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge seed-webkit2
Remove seed-webkit2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove seed-webkit2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seed-webkit2
Dependencies
seed-webkit2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seed-webkit2 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
