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