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