How To Install planets on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install planets on Debian 11. planets is Gravitation simulation of planetary bodies

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install planets on Debian 11.

What is planets

planets is:

Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems. It is great for teaching gravitation on planet level.

The user interface is aimed at being simple enough for a fairly young kid to enjoy it, their is a special kid-mode for this purpose.

There are three methods to install planets 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 planets Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install planets

Install planets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install planets using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install planets

Install planets 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 planets using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install planets

How To Uninstall planets on Debian 11

To uninstall only the planets package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove planets

Uninstall planets And Its Dependencies

To uninstall planets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove planets

Remove planets Configurations and Data

To remove planets configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge planets

Remove planets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge planets

Dependencies

planets have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install planets package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.