How To Install gedit-common on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-common
on Debian 11.
What is gedit-common
gedit-common is:
gedit is a text editor which supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors.
This package contains gedit’s architecture-independent support files.
There are three methods to install gedit-common
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gedit-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 gedit-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gedit-common
Install gedit-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gedit-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gedit-common
Install gedit-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 gedit-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gedit-common
How To Uninstall gedit-common on Debian 11
To uninstall only the gedit-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gedit-common
Uninstall gedit-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gedit-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gedit-common
Remove gedit-common Configurations and Data
To remove gedit-common
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gedit-common
Remove gedit-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gedit-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gedit-common
Dependencies
gedit-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-common
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.