How To Install kover on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install kover on Debian 9. kover is WYSIWYG CD cover printer

Introduction

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

What is kover

kover is:

Kover is a WYSIWYG CD cover printer. You have the ability to enter the title, contents, set background colors, enter text, embed images or stream the title and tracks from CDDB (including CDDB Code 211). Kover can authenticate through a proxy (Basic, but not Digest) for accessing CDDB, and make a CDDB request just by entering the CDDB ID (i.e., no need to have the CD inserted).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kover

Install kover Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kover

Install kover 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 kover using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kover

How To Uninstall kover on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove kover

Uninstall kover And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kover

Remove kover Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kover

Remove kover configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kover

Dependencies

kover have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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