How To Install blam on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blam
on Debian 9.
What is blam
blam is:
Blam is an RSS aggregator for GNOME with support for Atom and RSS feeds and support for different themes.
There are three methods to install blam
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 blam Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install blam
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blam
Install blam Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blam
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blam
Install blam 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 blam
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blam
How To Uninstall blam on Debian 9
To uninstall only the blam
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blam
Uninstall blam And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blam
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blam
Remove blam Configurations and Data
To remove blam
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blam
Remove blam configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blam
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blam
Dependencies
blam have the following dependencies:
- gconf2
- mono-runtime
- libc6
- libdbus2.0-cil
- libgconf2.0-cil
- libglade2.0-cil
- libglib2.0-cil
- libgnome2.24-cil
- libgtk2.0-cil
- libmono-corlib4.5-cil
- libmono-posix4.0-cil
- libmono-system-web4.0-cil
- libmono-system-xml4.0-cil
- libmono-system4.0-cil
- libwebkit1.1-cil
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blam
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.