How To Install education-standalone on Debian 12

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

Introduction

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

What is education-standalone

education-standalone is:

A metapackage containing dependencies for packages required on all small standalone workstation installations in the Debian Edu Blend.

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

sudo apt-get -y install education-standalone

Install education-standalone Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install education-standalone

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

sudo aptitude -y install education-standalone

How To Uninstall education-standalone on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove education-standalone

Uninstall education-standalone And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-standalone

Remove education-standalone Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge education-standalone

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

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

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

Dependencies

education-standalone have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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