How To Install gnome-control-center on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-control-center on Debian 9.

What is gnome-control-center

gnome-control-center is:

This package contains configuration applets for the GNOME desktop, allowing to set accessibility configuration, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other GNOME parameters.

It also contains a front end to these applets, which can also be accessed with the GNOME panel or the Nautilus file manager.

There are three methods to install gnome-control-center 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 gnome-control-center Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gnome-control-center using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-control-center

Install gnome-control-center Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gnome-control-center using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gnome-control-center

Install gnome-control-center 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 gnome-control-center using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnome-control-center

How To Uninstall gnome-control-center on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gnome-control-center package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-control-center

Uninstall gnome-control-center And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnome-control-center and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-control-center

Remove gnome-control-center Configurations and Data

To remove gnome-control-center configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-control-center

Remove gnome-control-center configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gnome-control-center configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-control-center

Dependencies

gnome-control-center have the following dependencies:

• libaccountsservice0
• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo-gobject2
• libcairo2
• libcanberra-gtk3-0
• libcanberra0
• libcheese-gtk25
• libcheese8
• libclutter-1.0-0
• libclutter-gtk-1.0-0
• libcolord-gtk1
• libcolord2
• libcups2
• libfontconfig1
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgnome-bluetooth13
• libgnome-desktop-3-12
• libgoa-1.0-0b
• libgoa-backend-1.0-1
• libgrilo-0.3-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libgtop-2.0-10
• libgudev-1.0-0
• libibus-1.0-5
• libkrb5-3
• libmm-glib0
• libnm0
• libnma0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• libpolkit-gobject-1-0
• libpulse-mainloop-glib0
• libpulse0
• libpwquality1
• libsmbclient

References

• gnome-control-center website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-control-center package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.