How To Install gpaste on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpaste
on Debian 9.
What is gpaste
gpaste 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
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 gpaste 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpaste
Install gpaste Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpaste
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpaste
Install gpaste 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpaste
How To Uninstall gpaste on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gpaste
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpaste
Uninstall gpaste And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpaste
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpaste
Remove gpaste Configurations and Data
To remove gpaste
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpaste
Remove gpaste configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpaste
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpaste
Dependencies
gpaste have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpaste
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.