How To Install plasma-marble on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-marble on Debian 12.
What is plasma-marble
plasma-marble is:
Marble is a generic geographical map widget and framework for KDE applications. The Marble widget shows the earth as a sphere but does not require hardware acceleration. A minimal set of geographical data is included, so it can be used without an internet connection.
This package contains the Marble integration with Plasma:
- the Plasma runner
- the World Clock widget
- the Plasma wallpaper
This package is part of the KDE education module.
There are three methods to install plasma-marble 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-marble 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-marble using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-marble
Install plasma-marble Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-marble using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-marble
Install plasma-marble 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-marble using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-marble
How To Uninstall plasma-marble on Debian 12
To uninstall only the plasma-marble package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-marble
Uninstall plasma-marble And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-marble and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-marble
Remove plasma-marble Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-marble configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-marble
Remove plasma-marble configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-marble configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-marble
Dependencies
plasma-marble have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-marble package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
