How To Install gpaste-2 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpaste-2
on Debian 12.
What is gpaste-2
gpaste-2 is:
GPaste manages clipboard history and allows easy access to it using keyboard shortcuts, gnome-shell extension, command-line tools, gir bindings.
This package contains the command-line tools, the D-Bus service, the GNOME Control Center key bindings, and desktop/appdata files.
There are three methods to install gpaste-2
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gpaste-2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpaste-2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpaste-2
Install gpaste-2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpaste-2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpaste-2
Install gpaste-2 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 gpaste-2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpaste-2
How To Uninstall gpaste-2 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gpaste-2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpaste-2
Uninstall gpaste-2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpaste-2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpaste-2
Remove gpaste-2 Configurations and Data
To remove gpaste-2
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpaste-2
Remove gpaste-2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpaste-2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpaste-2
Dependencies
gpaste-2 have the following dependencies:
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- init-system-helpers
- libadwaita-1-0
- libc6
- libgcr-base-3-1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgpaste-2
- libgtk-3-0
- libgtk-4-1
- libx11-6
- libxi6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpaste-2
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.