How To Install libmaliit-plugins2 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmaliit-plugins2 on Debian 12.
What is libmaliit-plugins2
libmaliit-plugins2 is:
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via input context plugins. The communication link currently uses D-Bus. Maliit is an open source framework (LGPL 2) with open source plugins (BSD).
This package provides the maliit plugin library for the Maliit framework.
There are three methods to install libmaliit-plugins2 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 libmaliit-plugins2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmaliit-plugins2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmaliit-plugins2
Install libmaliit-plugins2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmaliit-plugins2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmaliit-plugins2
Install libmaliit-plugins2 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 libmaliit-plugins2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmaliit-plugins2
How To Uninstall libmaliit-plugins2 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libmaliit-plugins2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmaliit-plugins2
Uninstall libmaliit-plugins2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmaliit-plugins2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmaliit-plugins2
Remove libmaliit-plugins2 Configurations and Data
To remove libmaliit-plugins2 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmaliit-plugins2
Remove libmaliit-plugins2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmaliit-plugins2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmaliit-plugins2
Dependencies
libmaliit-plugins2 have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5qml5
- libqt5quick5
- libstdc++6
- libudev1
- libwayland-client0
- libxcb-xfixes0
- libxcb1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmaliit-plugins2 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.