How To Install nuntius on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuntius
on Debian 9.
What is nuntius
nuntius is:
Deliver notifications from your Android phone or tablet to your computer using Bluetooth or LAN. To use, you will need to install a companion tool on your phone or tablet and either pair it via Bluetooth or point it at an on-screen QR code.
You may need to restart your session to auto-start nuntius.
This is similar to KDE Connect (Debian package kdeconnect), albeit much less mature, but uses 200MB of GNOME infrastructure instead of 200MB of KDE infrastructure.
There are three methods to install nuntius
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 nuntius Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nuntius
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nuntius
Install nuntius Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nuntius
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nuntius
Install nuntius 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 nuntius
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nuntius
How To Uninstall nuntius on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nuntius
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nuntius
Uninstall nuntius And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nuntius
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nuntius
Remove nuntius Configurations and Data
To remove nuntius
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nuntius
Remove nuntius configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nuntius
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nuntius
Dependencies
nuntius have the following dependencies:
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjson-glib-1.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libqrencode3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuntius
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.