How To Install plasma-discover on Debian 10

Learn how to install plasma-discover on Debian 10 with this tutorial. plasma-discover is Discover software management suite

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover on Debian 10.

What is plasma-discover

plasma-discover is:

Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace. It helps users easily and quickly find applications and other software they might want to install.

By allowing to navigate a software library by search, categories, top lists along with detailed application information that includes screenshots and reviews, users can more quickly find applications that suit their needs.

Discover will also keep the system up to date by notifying about updates and installing them.

There are three methods to install plasma-discover on Debian 10. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-discover

Install plasma-discover Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plasma-discover

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

sudo aptitude -y install plasma-discover

How To Uninstall plasma-discover on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove plasma-discover

Uninstall plasma-discover And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plasma-discover and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-discover

Remove plasma-discover Configurations and Data

To remove plasma-discover configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-discover

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

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

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

Dependencies

plasma-discover have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.