How To Install consolekit on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install consolekit on Debian 9.
What is consolekit
consolekit is:
ConsoleKit is a system daemon for tracking what users are logged into the system and how they interact with the computer (e.g. which keyboard and mouse they use).
It provides asynchronous notification via the system message bus.
This package provides the system daemon and tools to interact with it.
There are three methods to install consolekit 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 consolekit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install consolekit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install consolekit
Install consolekit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install consolekit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install consolekit
Install consolekit 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 consolekit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install consolekit
How To Uninstall consolekit on Debian 9
To uninstall only the consolekit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove consolekit
Uninstall consolekit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall consolekit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove consolekit
Remove consolekit Configurations and Data
To remove consolekit configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge consolekit
Remove consolekit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove consolekit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge consolekit
Dependencies
consolekit have the following dependencies:
- libacl1
- libc6
- libck-connector0
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libglib2.0-0
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
- libudev1
- libx11-6
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install consolekit package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.