How To Install gcal-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcal-common
on Debian 9.
What is gcal-common
gcal-common is:
This package contains architecture independent files needed for gcal to run properly. Therefore, unless you have ‘gcal’ package installed, you will hardly find this package useful.
There are three methods to install gcal-common
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 gcal-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 gcal-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gcal-common
Install gcal-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gcal-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gcal-common
Install gcal-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 gcal-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gcal-common
How To Uninstall gcal-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gcal-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gcal-common
Uninstall gcal-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gcal-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gcal-common
Remove gcal-common Configurations and Data
To remove gcal-common
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gcal-common
Remove gcal-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gcal-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gcal-common
Dependencies
gcal-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcal-common
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.