How To Install libgnomecanvas2-common on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgnomecanvas2-common on Debian 12.
What is libgnomecanvas2-common
libgnomecanvas2-common is:
The canvas widget is a powerful and extensible object-oriented display engine. A GnomeCanvasItem is a GtkObject representing some element of the display, such as an image, a rectangle, an ellipse, or some text. You can refer to this architecture as structured graphics; the canvas lets you deal with graphics in terms of items, rather than an undifferentiated grid of pixels.
This package contains internationalization files.
This package is for legacy applications and no longer used by GNOME, please use GTK+ 4 for new development.
There are three methods to install libgnomecanvas2-common on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libgnomecanvas2-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgnomecanvas2-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgnomecanvas2-common
Install libgnomecanvas2-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgnomecanvas2-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgnomecanvas2-common
Install libgnomecanvas2-common 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 libgnomecanvas2-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgnomecanvas2-common
How To Uninstall libgnomecanvas2-common on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libgnomecanvas2-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgnomecanvas2-common
Uninstall libgnomecanvas2-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgnomecanvas2-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgnomecanvas2-common
Remove libgnomecanvas2-common Configurations and Data
To remove libgnomecanvas2-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgnomecanvas2-common
Remove libgnomecanvas2-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgnomecanvas2-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgnomecanvas2-common
Dependencies
libgnomecanvas2-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgnomecanvas2-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
