How To Install kdelibs5-plugins on Debian 10

Learn how to install kdelibs5-plugins on Debian 10 with this tutorial. kdelibs5-plugins is core plugins for KDE Applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdelibs5-plugins on Debian 10.

What is kdelibs5-plugins

kdelibs5-plugins is:

This package contains core plugins for KDE Applications used by KDE Applications and KDE Development Platform libraries at runtime. This package is needed to run most KDE Applications.

This package is part of the KDE Development Platform libraries module.

There are three methods to install kdelibs5-plugins on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install kdelibs5-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kdelibs5-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kdelibs5-plugins

Install kdelibs5-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kdelibs5-plugins using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kdelibs5-plugins

Install kdelibs5-plugins 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 kdelibs5-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kdelibs5-plugins

How To Uninstall kdelibs5-plugins on Debian 10

To uninstall only the kdelibs5-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kdelibs5-plugins

Uninstall kdelibs5-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kdelibs5-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdelibs5-plugins

Remove kdelibs5-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove kdelibs5-plugins configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kdelibs5-plugins

Remove kdelibs5-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kdelibs5-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdelibs5-plugins

Dependencies

kdelibs5-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdelibs5-plugins package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.