How To Install astro-education on Debian 10

Learn how to install astro-education on Debian 10 with this tutorial. astro-education is Educational astronomy applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install astro-education on Debian 10.

What is astro-education

astro-education is:

This metapackage depends on various applications that can be used to teach astronomy.

There are three methods to install astro-education 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 astro-education Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install astro-education

Install astro-education Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install astro-education

Install astro-education 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 astro-education using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install astro-education

How To Uninstall astro-education on Debian 10

To uninstall only the astro-education package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove astro-education

Uninstall astro-education And Its Dependencies

To uninstall astro-education and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove astro-education

Remove astro-education Configurations and Data

To remove astro-education configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge astro-education

Remove astro-education configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge astro-education

Dependencies

astro-education have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install astro-education package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.