How To Install phosh-tablet on Debian 12

Learn how to install phosh-tablet on Debian 12 with this tutorial. phosh-tablet is GNOME/Phosh mobile Environment – tablet components

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phosh-tablet on Debian 12.

What is phosh-tablet

phosh-tablet is:

These are the tablet related components of the GNOME/Phosh environment for mobile devices.

This aims to be similar to the GNOME desktop environment but for mobile devices.

This metapackage depends on a set of programs that are useful on tablets.

There are three methods to install phosh-tablet 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 phosh-tablet Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phosh-tablet

Install phosh-tablet Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phosh-tablet

Install phosh-tablet 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 phosh-tablet using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phosh-tablet

How To Uninstall phosh-tablet on Debian 12

To uninstall only the phosh-tablet package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phosh-tablet

Uninstall phosh-tablet And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phosh-tablet

Remove phosh-tablet Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phosh-tablet

Remove phosh-tablet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phosh-tablet

Dependencies

phosh-tablet have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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