How To Install activity-aware-firefox on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install activity-aware-firefox on Debian 12.
What is activity-aware-firefox
activity-aware-firefox is:
Using activity-aware-firefox you can have Firefox windows in each Plasma Activity bound to that Activity.
What activity-aware-firefox does is to create a Firefox Profile the first time it is run in an Activity, using its unique ID.
Then every next time you run activity-aware-firefox in that Plasma Activity, it will start the Firefox Profile associated with it.
There are three methods to install activity-aware-firefox on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install activity-aware-firefox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install activity-aware-firefox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install activity-aware-firefox
Install activity-aware-firefox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install activity-aware-firefox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install activity-aware-firefox
Install activity-aware-firefox 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 activity-aware-firefox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install activity-aware-firefox
How To Uninstall activity-aware-firefox on Debian 12
To uninstall only the activity-aware-firefox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove activity-aware-firefox
Uninstall activity-aware-firefox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall activity-aware-firefox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove activity-aware-firefox
Remove activity-aware-firefox Configurations and Data
To remove activity-aware-firefox configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge activity-aware-firefox
Remove activity-aware-firefox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove activity-aware-firefox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge activity-aware-firefox
Dependencies
activity-aware-firefox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install activity-aware-firefox package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.