How To Install education-laptop on Debian 12

Learn how to install education-laptop on Debian 12 with this tutorial. education-laptop is Debian Edu laptop packages

Introduction

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

What is education-laptop

education-laptop is:

A metapackage containing dependencies for packages required on all laptop installations in the Debian Edu Blend. These packages extend the Debian laptop task.

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

sudo apt-get -y install education-laptop

Install education-laptop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install education-laptop

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

sudo aptitude -y install education-laptop

How To Uninstall education-laptop on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove education-laptop

Uninstall education-laptop And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-laptop

Remove education-laptop Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge education-laptop

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

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

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

Dependencies

education-laptop have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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