How To Install evolution-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install evolution-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. evolution-common is architecture independent files for Evolution

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-common on Debian 10.

What is evolution-common

evolution-common is:

Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools.

This package contains the architecture independent files needed by the evolution package.

There are three methods to install evolution-common on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install evolution-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install evolution-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install evolution-common

Install evolution-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install evolution-common

Install evolution-common 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 evolution-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install evolution-common

How To Uninstall evolution-common on Debian 10

To uninstall only the evolution-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove evolution-common

Uninstall evolution-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall evolution-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove evolution-common

Remove evolution-common Configurations and Data

To remove evolution-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge evolution-common

Remove evolution-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge evolution-common

Dependencies

evolution-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.