How To Install education-development on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-development on Debian 9. education-development is Debian Edu software development related educational applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-development on Debian 9.

What is education-development

education-development is:

This metapackage depends on various applications that can be used to develop applications in schools. The idea is to support integrated development environments that are easy to learn and lead to quick results for beginners.

There are three methods to install education-development 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 education-development 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-development using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install education-development

Install education-development Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install education-development

Install education-development 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-development using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install education-development

How To Uninstall education-development on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove education-development

Uninstall education-development And Its Dependencies

To uninstall education-development and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-development

Remove education-development Configurations and Data

To remove education-development configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge education-development

Remove education-development configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge education-development

Dependencies

education-development have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-development package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.