How To Install hamster-time-tracker on Debian 12

Learn how to install hamster-time-tracker on Debian 12 with this tutorial. hamster-time-tracker is time tracking application for GNOME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hamster-time-tracker on Debian 12.

What is `hamster-time-tracker`

hamster-time-tracker is:

Project Hamster helps you to keep track of how much time you spend on various activities during the day. Whenever you move from one task to another, you can change your current activity, or you can record time spent afterwards.

It can present graphical statistics of how long you have spent on each task, and may be useful for project management or keeping employee timesheets.

This package contains the background daemon and GNOME application, an extension to integrate into the gnome-shell top bar is separately available.

There are three methods to install hamster-time-tracker 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 hamster-time-tracker Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install hamster-time-tracker using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hamster-time-tracker

Install hamster-time-tracker Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install hamster-time-tracker using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install hamster-time-tracker

Install hamster-time-tracker 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 hamster-time-tracker using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hamster-time-tracker

How To Uninstall hamster-time-tracker on Debian 12

To uninstall only the hamster-time-tracker package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hamster-time-tracker

Uninstall hamster-time-tracker And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hamster-time-tracker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hamster-time-tracker

Remove hamster-time-tracker Configurations and Data

To remove hamster-time-tracker configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hamster-time-tracker

Remove hamster-time-tracker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove hamster-time-tracker configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hamster-time-tracker

Dependencies

hamster-time-tracker have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hamster-time-tracker package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.