How To Install education-desktop-gnome on Debian 12

Learn how to install education-desktop-gnome on Debian 12 with this tutorial. education-desktop-gnome is Debian Edu GNOME desktop applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-desktop-gnome on Debian 12.

What is education-desktop-gnome

education-desktop-gnome is:

This metapackage depends on various GNOME office and desktop applications that are useful for teachers and their students.

There are three methods to install education-desktop-gnome on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install education-desktop-gnome Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install education-desktop-gnome

Install education-desktop-gnome Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install education-desktop-gnome

Install education-desktop-gnome 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 education-desktop-gnome using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install education-desktop-gnome

How To Uninstall education-desktop-gnome on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove education-desktop-gnome

Uninstall education-desktop-gnome And Its Dependencies

To uninstall education-desktop-gnome and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-desktop-gnome

Remove education-desktop-gnome Configurations and Data

To remove education-desktop-gnome configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge education-desktop-gnome

Remove education-desktop-gnome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge education-desktop-gnome

Dependencies

education-desktop-gnome have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-desktop-gnome package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.