How To Install osdclock on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install osdclock
on Debian 9.
What is osdclock
osdclock is:
A clock which uses the X On-Screen Display library to display itself.
It supports a strftime(3)-style format parameter and can be configured to show up only at specific intervals.
There are three methods to install osdclock
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 osdclock Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install osdclock
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install osdclock
Install osdclock Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install osdclock
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install osdclock
Install osdclock 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 osdclock
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install osdclock
How To Uninstall osdclock on Debian 9
To uninstall only the osdclock
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove osdclock
Uninstall osdclock And Its Dependencies
To uninstall osdclock
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove osdclock
Remove osdclock Configurations and Data
To remove osdclock
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge osdclock
Remove osdclock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove osdclock
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osdclock
Dependencies
osdclock have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install osdclock
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.