How To Install taskcoach on Debian 10

Learn how to install taskcoach on Debian 10 with this tutorial. taskcoach is friendly task manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install taskcoach on Debian 10.

What is taskcoach

taskcoach is:

Task Coach is a friendly open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It supports composite tasks, i.e. tasks within tasks. In addition, Task Coach allows you to categorize your tasks, track effort against a budget per task, and much more. Task Coach is available for Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, Linux, iPhone and iPad.

Your database may be synchronized across these platforms. If espeak is installed, reminders can be spoken.

There are three methods to install taskcoach 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 taskcoach Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install taskcoach

Install taskcoach Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install taskcoach using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install taskcoach

Install taskcoach 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 taskcoach using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install taskcoach

How To Uninstall taskcoach on Debian 10

To uninstall only the taskcoach package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove taskcoach

Uninstall taskcoach And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove taskcoach

Remove taskcoach Configurations and Data

To remove taskcoach configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge taskcoach

Remove taskcoach configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge taskcoach

Dependencies

taskcoach have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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