How To Install network-manager-gnome on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-gnome on Debian 11.
What is network-manager-gnome
network-manager-gnome is:
NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network devices and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when available. It manages ethernet, WiFi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and PPPoE devices, and provides VPN integration with a variety of different VPN services.
This package contains a systray applet for GNOME’s notification area but it also works for other desktop environments which provide a systray like KDE or Xfce. It displays the available networks and allows users to easily switch between them. For encrypted networks it will prompt the user for the key/passphrase and it can optionally store them in the gnome-keyring.
There are three methods to install network-manager-gnome on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install network-manager-gnome Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-gnome using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install network-manager-gnome
Install network-manager-gnome Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-gnome using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install network-manager-gnome
Install network-manager-gnome 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 network-manager-gnome using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install network-manager-gnome
How To Uninstall network-manager-gnome on Debian 11
To uninstall only the network-manager-gnome package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove network-manager-gnome
Uninstall network-manager-gnome And Its Dependencies
To uninstall network-manager-gnome and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove network-manager-gnome
Remove network-manager-gnome Configurations and Data
To remove network-manager-gnome configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge network-manager-gnome
Remove network-manager-gnome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove network-manager-gnome configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge network-manager-gnome
Dependencies
network-manager-gnome have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libayatana-appindicator3-1
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjansson4
- libmm-glib0
- libnm0
- libnma0
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
- libselinux1
- network-manager
- policykit-1-gnome
- default-dbus-session-bus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-gnome package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
