How To Install apper on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apper on Debian 10.
What is apper
apper is:
PackageKit allows performing simple software management tasks over a DBus interface e.g. refreshing the cache, updating, installing and removing software packages or searching for multimedia codecs and file handlers.
This package provides a KDE package manager based on PackageKit, as well as package management support for the KDE desktop. It implements the PackageKit session API for KDE, which allows applications to easily install additional software (e.g. extensions), uninstall files and perform simple software status queries.
There are three methods to install apper 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 apper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apper using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apper
Install apper Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apper using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apper
Install apper 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 apper using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apper
How To Uninstall apper on Debian 10
To uninstall only the apper package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apper
Uninstall apper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apper and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apper
Remove apper Configurations and Data
To remove apper configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apper
Remove apper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apper configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apper
Dependencies
apper have the following dependencies:
- apper-data
- packagekit
- polkit-kde-1
- software-properties-kde
- kio
- libappstreamqt2
- libc6
- libdebconf-kde1
- libgcc1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apper package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.