How To Install kde-runtime on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-runtime
on Debian 9.
What is kde-runtime
kde-runtime is:
KDE is produced by an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.
This package contains programs and data needed at runtime by KDE applications.
There are three methods to install kde-runtime
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 kde-runtime Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kde-runtime
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kde-runtime
Install kde-runtime Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kde-runtime
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kde-runtime
Install kde-runtime 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 kde-runtime
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kde-runtime
How To Uninstall kde-runtime on Debian 9
To uninstall only the kde-runtime
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kde-runtime
Uninstall kde-runtime And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kde-runtime
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kde-runtime
Remove kde-runtime Configurations and Data
To remove kde-runtime
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kde-runtime
Remove kde-runtime configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kde-runtime
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kde-runtime
Dependencies
kde-runtime have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-runtime
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.