How To Install education-menus on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install education-menus on Debian 9. education-menus is Debian Edu menu reorganization

Introduction

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

What is education-menus

education-menus is:

A package to reorganizate menu branches in order to get a structure easy to use for teachers and students.

To activate the menu reorganization, a teachers or students group must exist in the system and the user has to be a member of one of these two groups.

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

sudo apt-get -y install education-menus

Install education-menus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install education-menus

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

sudo aptitude -y install education-menus

How To Uninstall education-menus on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove education-menus

Uninstall education-menus And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-menus

Remove education-menus Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge education-menus

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

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

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

Dependencies

education-menus have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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