How To Install geneweb-gui on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geneweb-gui on Debian 10.
What is geneweb-gui
geneweb-gui is:
Geneweb allows keeping track of ancestral data. It is a powerful system for maintaining a set of data about your family history. It supports much of the GEDCOM tag system for data storage, and can be used either as your primary system for archiving genealogical data, or as a web service (through a CGI interface) for publishing your data for others to use.
This package provides a graphical interface to geneweb (assuming the database is hosted on the local machine).
There are three methods to install geneweb-gui on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install geneweb-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install geneweb-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geneweb-gui
Install geneweb-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geneweb-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geneweb-gui
Install geneweb-gui 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 geneweb-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geneweb-gui
How To Uninstall geneweb-gui on Debian 10
To uninstall only the geneweb-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geneweb-gui
Uninstall geneweb-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geneweb-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geneweb-gui
Remove geneweb-gui Configurations and Data
To remove geneweb-gui configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geneweb-gui
Remove geneweb-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geneweb-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geneweb-gui
Dependencies
geneweb-gui have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- geneweb
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geneweb-gui package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.