How To Install games-education on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-education on Debian 9.
What is games-education
games-education is:
This metapackage will install educational games for young and older children.
There are three methods to install games-education 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 games-education Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install games-education using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install games-education
Install games-education Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install games-education using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install games-education
Install games-education 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 games-education using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install games-education
How To Uninstall games-education on Debian 9
To uninstall only the games-education package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove games-education
Uninstall games-education And Its Dependencies
To uninstall games-education and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove games-education
Remove games-education Configurations and Data
To remove games-education configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge games-education
Remove games-education configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove games-education configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge games-education
Dependencies
games-education have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install games-education package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.