How To Install adwaita-qt4 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-qt4 on Debian 9.
What is adwaita-qt4
adwaita-qt4 is:
Adwaita-Qt provides a port of Adwaita theme, which is the default style of GNOME, to Qt 4.
To use it, start your Qt applications with ??-style Adwaita?? parameter, or select the ??adwaita?? style in qtconfig-qt4.
There are three methods to install adwaita-qt4 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install adwaita-qt4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-qt4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install adwaita-qt4
Install adwaita-qt4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-qt4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install adwaita-qt4
Install adwaita-qt4 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 adwaita-qt4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install adwaita-qt4
How To Uninstall adwaita-qt4 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the adwaita-qt4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove adwaita-qt4
Uninstall adwaita-qt4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall adwaita-qt4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove adwaita-qt4
Remove adwaita-qt4 Configurations and Data
To remove adwaita-qt4 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge adwaita-qt4
Remove adwaita-qt4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove adwaita-qt4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adwaita-qt4
Dependencies
adwaita-qt4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-qt4 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.