How To Install grig on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grig on Debian 9.
What is grig
grig is:
GNOME RIG is a graphical user interface to the Ham Radio Control Libraries, which lets you control your communication radios and/or antenna rotators from a personal computer. GNOME RIG is written using the Gtk+ and GNOME widgets.
GNOME RIG is in a very early stage and it supports only a very little subset of the full Hamlib API, but it can be very useful in testing basic hamlib support for your rig.
There are three methods to install grig 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 grig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grig using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grig
Install grig Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grig using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grig
Install grig 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 grig using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grig
How To Uninstall grig on Debian 9
To uninstall only the grig package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grig
Uninstall grig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grig and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grig
Remove grig Configurations and Data
To remove grig configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grig
Remove grig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grig configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grig
Dependencies
grig have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libhamlib2
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grig package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.