How To Install gnome-shell-extension-onboard on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-onboard
on Debian 9.
What is gnome-shell-extension-onboard
gnome-shell-extension-onboard is:
This package hides the official GNOME3 keyboard and provides an icon to show/hide Onboard. It is only an initial extension that does not show Onboard for activities and passwords, yet.
There are three methods to install gnome-shell-extension-onboard
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-shell-extension-onboard 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-shell-extension-onboard
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-shell-extension-onboard
Install gnome-shell-extension-onboard Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-onboard
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-shell-extension-onboard
Install gnome-shell-extension-onboard 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-shell-extension-onboard
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-shell-extension-onboard
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-onboard on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-onboard
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell-extension-onboard
Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-onboard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-shell-extension-onboard
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-shell-extension-onboard
Remove gnome-shell-extension-onboard Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-shell-extension-onboard
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-shell-extension-onboard
Remove gnome-shell-extension-onboard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-shell-extension-onboard
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-shell-extension-onboard
Dependencies
gnome-shell-extension-onboard have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-onboard
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.