How To Install blends-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blends-common on Debian 9.
What is blends-common
blends-common is:
This package builds the basic infra structure for metapackages.
This package provides some files which are common to metapackages of Common Debian Distributions. It introduces a method to handle system users in a group named according to the name of the Debian Pure Blend.
There are three methods to install blends-common 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 blends-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install blends-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blends-common
Install blends-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blends-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blends-common
Install blends-common 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 blends-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blends-common
How To Uninstall blends-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the blends-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blends-common
Uninstall blends-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blends-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blends-common
Remove blends-common Configurations and Data
To remove blends-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blends-common
Remove blends-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blends-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blends-common
Dependencies
blends-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blends-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.