How To Install education-tasks on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install education-tasks on Debian 11.
What is education-tasks
education-tasks is:
This package provides Debian Edu tasks in tasksel.
Debian Edu is a Debian Pure Blend, an overview of available metapackages and their dependencies/recommendations/suggestions is provided at https://blends.debian.org/edu/tasks/
There are three methods to install education-tasks on Debian 11. 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-tasks 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-tasks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install education-tasks
Install education-tasks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install education-tasks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install education-tasks
Install education-tasks 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-tasks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install education-tasks
How To Uninstall education-tasks on Debian 11
To uninstall only the education-tasks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove education-tasks
Uninstall education-tasks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall education-tasks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove education-tasks
Remove education-tasks Configurations and Data
To remove education-tasks configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge education-tasks
Remove education-tasks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove education-tasks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge education-tasks
Dependencies
education-tasks have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install education-tasks package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.