How To Install gconf-gsettings-backend on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gconf-gsettings-backend
on Debian 12.
What is gconf-gsettings-backend
gconf-gsettings-backend is:
GConf is a configuration database system for storing application preferences.
This package contains a backend to enable applications that use the newer GSettings framework to store their preferences to use GConf for storing the actual values.
You will need to explicitly enable it through your environment with GSETTINGS_BACKEND=gconf. It is strongly recommended to not use this backend unless you really know what you??re doing.
This package is for legacy applications and no longer used by GNOME.
There are three methods to install gconf-gsettings-backend
on Debian 12. 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-gsettings-backend 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-gsettings-backend
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gconf-gsettings-backend
Install gconf-gsettings-backend Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gconf-gsettings-backend
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gconf-gsettings-backend
Install gconf-gsettings-backend 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-gsettings-backend
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gconf-gsettings-backend
How To Uninstall gconf-gsettings-backend on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gconf-gsettings-backend
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gconf-gsettings-backend
Uninstall gconf-gsettings-backend And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gconf-gsettings-backend
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gconf-gsettings-backend
Remove gconf-gsettings-backend Configurations and Data
To remove gconf-gsettings-backend
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gconf-gsettings-backend
Remove gconf-gsettings-backend configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gconf-gsettings-backend
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gconf-gsettings-backend
Dependencies
gconf-gsettings-backend have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gconf-gsettings-backend
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.