How To Install smartpm on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smartpm
on Debian 10.
What is smartpm
smartpm is:
The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).
This package contains the GTK2 frontend for Smart.
There are three methods to install smartpm
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 smartpm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smartpm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smartpm
Install smartpm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smartpm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smartpm
Install smartpm 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 smartpm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smartpm
How To Uninstall smartpm on Debian 10
To uninstall only the smartpm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smartpm
Uninstall smartpm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smartpm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smartpm
Remove smartpm Configurations and Data
To remove smartpm
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smartpm
Remove smartpm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smartpm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smartpm
Dependencies
smartpm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smartpm
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.