How To Install zeitgeist-core on Debian 10

Learn how to install zeitgeist-core on Debian 10 with this tutorial. zeitgeist-core is event logging framework - engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zeitgeist-core on Debian 10.

What is zeitgeist-core

zeitgeist-core is:

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user’s activities and events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes the relevant information available to other applications.

It serves as a comprehensive activity log and also makes it possible to determine relationships between items based on usage patterns.

This package contains the main daemon (in its new Vala implementation, codenamed “Bluebird”). It also includes the FTS (Full Text Search) extension.

There are three methods to install zeitgeist-core 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 zeitgeist-core Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zeitgeist-core

Install zeitgeist-core Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install zeitgeist-core

Install zeitgeist-core 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 zeitgeist-core using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zeitgeist-core

How To Uninstall zeitgeist-core on Debian 10

To uninstall only the zeitgeist-core package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove zeitgeist-core

Uninstall zeitgeist-core And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zeitgeist-core

Remove zeitgeist-core Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge zeitgeist-core

Remove zeitgeist-core configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zeitgeist-core

Dependencies

zeitgeist-core have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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