How To Install gaiksaurus on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gaiksaurus on Debian 10.
What is gaiksaurus
gaiksaurus is:
This is a graphical interface to the Aiksaurus English language thesaurus programming toolkit, meant to be embedded in other applications.
This contains gaiksaurus, a standalone GTK+ frontend for AiksaurusGTK.
There are three methods to install gaiksaurus 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 gaiksaurus Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gaiksaurus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gaiksaurus
Install gaiksaurus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gaiksaurus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gaiksaurus
Install gaiksaurus 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 gaiksaurus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gaiksaurus
How To Uninstall gaiksaurus on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gaiksaurus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gaiksaurus
Uninstall gaiksaurus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gaiksaurus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gaiksaurus
Remove gaiksaurus Configurations and Data
To remove gaiksaurus configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gaiksaurus
Remove gaiksaurus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gaiksaurus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gaiksaurus
Dependencies
gaiksaurus have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gaiksaurus package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
