How To Install evince on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince on Debian 11.
What is evince
evince is:
Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.
There are three methods to install evince 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 evince Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install evince using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install evince
Install evince Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install evince using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install evince
Install evince 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 evince using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install evince
How To Uninstall evince on Debian 11
To uninstall only the evince package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove evince
Uninstall evince And Its Dependencies
To uninstall evince and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove evince
Remove evince Configurations and Data
To remove evince configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge evince
Remove evince configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove evince configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge evince
Dependencies
evince have the following dependencies:
- evince-common
- evince-common
- gsettings-desktop-schemas
- libevdocument3-4
- libevview3-3
- shared-mime-info
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnome-desktop-3-19
- libgtk-3-0
- libnautilus-extension1a
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.