How To Install gnome-session-common on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-session-common on Debian 9.

What is gnome-session-common

gnome-session-common is:

The GNOME Session Manager is in charge of starting the core components of the GNOME desktop, and applications that should be launched at login time. It also features a way to save and restore currently running applications.

This package contains the translations, data files and startup scripts which are common to the GNOME and GNOME fallback sessions.

There are three methods to install gnome-session-common 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-session-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 gnome-session-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-session-common

Install gnome-session-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gnome-session-common

Install gnome-session-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 gnome-session-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnome-session-common

How To Uninstall gnome-session-common on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gnome-session-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-session-common

Uninstall gnome-session-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-session-common

Remove gnome-session-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-session-common

Remove gnome-session-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-session-common

Dependencies

gnome-session-common have the following dependencies:

References

• gnome-session-common website

Summary

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