How To Install kdesignerplugin on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdesignerplugin on Debian 9.

What is kdesignerplugin

kdesignerplugin is:

This framework provides plugins for Qt Designer that allow it to display the widgets provided by various KDE Frameworks, as well as a utility kgendesignerplugin which can be used to generate other such plugins from ini-style description files.

Part of KDE Frameworks.

There are three methods to install kdesignerplugin 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 kdesignerplugin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kdesignerplugin

Install kdesignerplugin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kdesignerplugin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kdesignerplugin

Install kdesignerplugin 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 kdesignerplugin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kdesignerplugin

How To Uninstall kdesignerplugin on Debian 9

To uninstall only the kdesignerplugin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kdesignerplugin

Uninstall kdesignerplugin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kdesignerplugin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdesignerplugin

Remove kdesignerplugin Configurations and Data

To remove kdesignerplugin configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kdesignerplugin

Remove kdesignerplugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdesignerplugin

Dependencies

kdesignerplugin have the following dependencies:

• kdesignerplugin-data
• kio
• libc6
• libkf5completion5
• libkf5configwidgets5
• libkf5iconthemes5
• libkf5itemviews5
• libkf5kiofilewidgets5
• libkf5kiowidgets5
• libkf5plotting5
• libkf5sonnetui5
• libkf5textwidgets5
• libkf5webkit5
• libkf5widgetsaddons5
• libkf5xmlgui5
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5gui5
• libstdc++6

References

• kdesignerplugin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdesignerplugin package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.