How To Install education-desktop-mate on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install education-desktop-mate on Debian 10.
What is education-desktop-mate
education-desktop-mate is:
This metapackage depends on various MATE office and desktop applications that are useful for teachers and their students.
There are three methods to install education-desktop-mate 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 education-desktop-mate 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-mate using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install education-desktop-mate
Install education-desktop-mate Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install education-desktop-mate using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install education-desktop-mate
Install education-desktop-mate 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-mate using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install education-desktop-mate
How To Uninstall education-desktop-mate on Debian 10
To uninstall only the education-desktop-mate package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove education-desktop-mate
Uninstall education-desktop-mate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall education-desktop-mate and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-desktop-mate
Remove education-desktop-mate Configurations and Data
To remove education-desktop-mate configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge education-desktop-mate
Remove education-desktop-mate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove education-desktop-mate configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge education-desktop-mate
Dependencies
education-desktop-mate have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install education-desktop-mate package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.