How To Install diodon on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install diodon on Debian 10.
What is diodon
diodon is:
Diodon is a lightweight clipboard manager for Linux written in Vala which “aims to be the best integrated clipboard manager for the Gnome/Unity desktop”.
Diodon features include Ubuntu indicator, clipboard sync (primary selection and Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V clipboard) and a zeitgeist integration for an infinite clipboard history.
There are three methods to install diodon 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 diodon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install diodon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install diodon
Install diodon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install diodon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install diodon
Install diodon 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 diodon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install diodon
How To Uninstall diodon on Debian 10
To uninstall only the diodon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove diodon
Uninstall diodon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall diodon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove diodon
Remove diodon Configurations and Data
To remove diodon configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge diodon
Remove diodon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove diodon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diodon
Dependencies
diodon have the following dependencies:
- libdiodon0
- zeitgeist-core
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libappindicator3-1
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libdbusmenu-glib4
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libgirepository-1.0-1
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpeas-1.0-0
- libxtst6
- libzeitgeist-2.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install diodon package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.