How To Install gnome-online-accounts on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-accounts on Debian 9.
What is gnome-online-accounts
gnome-online-accounts is:
This package contains the GNOME Online Accounts service, which provides a centralized place for managing online accounts (Google, etc) for the GNOME desktop.
There are three methods to install gnome-online-accounts 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-online-accounts 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-online-accounts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-online-accounts
Install gnome-online-accounts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-online-accounts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-online-accounts
Install gnome-online-accounts 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-online-accounts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-online-accounts
How To Uninstall gnome-online-accounts on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gnome-online-accounts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-online-accounts
Uninstall gnome-online-accounts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-online-accounts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-online-accounts
Remove gnome-online-accounts Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-online-accounts configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-online-accounts
Remove gnome-online-accounts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-online-accounts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-online-accounts
Dependencies
gnome-online-accounts have the following dependencies:
- libgoa-1.0-0b
- libgoa-backend-1.0-1
- libc6
- libgcr-base-3-1
- libglib2.0-0
- libkrb5-3
- librest-0.7-0
- libsoup2.4-1
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-accounts package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.