How To Install geany-plugins on Debian 12

Learn how to install geany-plugins on Debian 12 with this tutorial. geany-plugins is set of plugins for Geany

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins on Debian 12.

What is geany-plugins

geany-plugins is:

This is a metapackage which installs the whole set of plugins for Geany.

Geany is a fast and lightweight IDE.

There are three methods to install geany-plugins 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 geany-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install geany-plugins

Install geany-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install geany-plugins

Install geany-plugins 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 geany-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install geany-plugins

How To Uninstall geany-plugins on Debian 12

To uninstall only the geany-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove geany-plugins

Uninstall geany-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall geany-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove geany-plugins

Remove geany-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove geany-plugins configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge geany-plugins

Remove geany-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geany-plugins

Dependencies

geany-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.