How To Install gconf-editor on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gconf-editor
on Debian 9.
What is gconf-editor
gconf-editor is:
GConf-Editor is a tool used for editing the GConf configuration database. This is not the recommended way of setting desktop preferences, but it might be useful when the proper configuration utility for some software provides no way of changing some option.
There are three methods to install gconf-editor
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 gconf-editor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gconf-editor
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gconf-editor
Install gconf-editor Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gconf-editor
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gconf-editor
Install gconf-editor 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 gconf-editor
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gconf-editor
How To Uninstall gconf-editor on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gconf-editor
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gconf-editor
Uninstall gconf-editor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gconf-editor
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gconf-editor
Remove gconf-editor Configurations and Data
To remove gconf-editor
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gconf-editor
Remove gconf-editor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gconf-editor
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gconf-editor
Dependencies
gconf-editor have the following dependencies:
- gconf-defaults-service
- policykit-1-gnome
- gconf2
- gconf-service
- libc6
- libgconf-2-4
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gconf-editor
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.