How To Install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
on Debian 10.
What is gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
gnome-software-plugin-flatpak is:
Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.
Software uses a plugin architecture to separate the frontend from the technologies that are used underneath. Currently, a PackageKit plugin provides data from a number of traditional packaging systems, such as rpm or apt. An appdata plugin provides additional metadata from locally installed data in the appdata format.
This package contains the Flatpak plugin.
There are three methods to install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
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 gnome-software-plugin-flatpak 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-software-plugin-flatpak
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
Install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
Install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak 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-software-plugin-flatpak
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
How To Uninstall gnome-software-plugin-flatpak on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
Uninstall gnome-software-plugin-flatpak And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
Remove gnome-software-plugin-flatpak Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
Remove gnome-software-plugin-flatpak configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
Dependencies
gnome-software-plugin-flatpak have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.