How To Install libusermetrics-tools on Debian 12

Learn how to install libusermetrics-tools on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libusermetrics-tools is library for exporting anonymous metrics about users (cmdline tools)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libusermetrics-tools on Debian 12.

What is libusermetrics-tools

libusermetrics-tools is:

Libusermetrics enables apps to locally store interesting numerical data for later presentation. For example in the Ubuntu Greeter “flower” infographic.

  • All data is stored locally in /var/usermetrics/.
  • No data is centrally collected via a web-serivice or otherwise, and no data is sent over the internet.

The only data that can be stored is numerical, for example “number of e-mails” or “number of pictures taken”. No personally identifying information is stored using this library.

The Libusermetrics components are used by the Lomiri Operating Environment.

This package contains command line tools to operate the library.

There are three methods to install libusermetrics-tools 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 libusermetrics-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libusermetrics-tools

Install libusermetrics-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libusermetrics-tools

Install libusermetrics-tools 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 libusermetrics-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libusermetrics-tools

How To Uninstall libusermetrics-tools on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libusermetrics-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libusermetrics-tools

Uninstall libusermetrics-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libusermetrics-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libusermetrics-tools

Remove libusermetrics-tools Configurations and Data

To remove libusermetrics-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libusermetrics-tools

Remove libusermetrics-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libusermetrics-tools

Dependencies

libusermetrics-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libusermetrics-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.