How To Install plasma-discover-common on Debian 12

Learn how to install plasma-discover-common on Debian 12 with this tutorial. plasma-discover-common is Discover software manager suite (common data files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-common on Debian 12.

What is plasma-discover-common

plasma-discover-common is:

Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace.

This package contains data files shared by various parts of the Discover suite.

There are three methods to install plasma-discover-common 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 plasma-discover-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-discover-common

Install plasma-discover-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install plasma-discover-common

Install plasma-discover-common 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 plasma-discover-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plasma-discover-common

How To Uninstall plasma-discover-common on Debian 12

To uninstall only the plasma-discover-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plasma-discover-common

Uninstall plasma-discover-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-discover-common

Remove plasma-discover-common Configurations and Data

To remove plasma-discover-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-discover-common

Remove plasma-discover-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove plasma-discover-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-discover-common

Dependencies

plasma-discover-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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