How To Install kdenetwork on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdenetwork on Debian 11. kdenetwork is networking applications from the official KDE release

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdenetwork on Debian 11.

What is kdenetwork

kdenetwork is:

KDE is produced by an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.

This metapackage includes networking applications provided with the official release of KDE.

There are three methods to install kdenetwork on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install kdenetwork Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kdenetwork

Install kdenetwork Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kdenetwork

Install kdenetwork 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 kdenetwork using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kdenetwork

How To Uninstall kdenetwork on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove kdenetwork

Uninstall kdenetwork And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kdenetwork and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdenetwork

Remove kdenetwork Configurations and Data

To remove kdenetwork configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kdenetwork

Remove kdenetwork configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdenetwork

Dependencies

kdenetwork have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdenetwork package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.