How To Install plasma-pa on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pa on Debian 9.
What is plasma-pa
plasma-pa is:
Volume controller for Plasma 5
There are three methods to install plasma-pa on Debian 9. 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-pa 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-pa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-pa
Install plasma-pa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-pa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-pa
Install plasma-pa 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-pa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-pa
How To Uninstall plasma-pa on Debian 9
To uninstall only the plasma-pa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-pa
Uninstall plasma-pa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-pa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-pa
Remove plasma-pa Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-pa configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-pa
Remove plasma-pa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-pa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-pa
Dependencies
plasma-pa have the following dependencies:
- plasma-framework
- pulseaudio
- pulseaudio-module-gconf
- qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop
- qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons
- qml-module-qtquick-controls
- qml-module-qtquick-layouts
- qml-module-qtquick2
- gconf-service
- libc6
- libcanberra0
- libgconf-2-4
- libglib2.0-0
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5globalaccel5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5quickaddons5
- libpulse-mainloop-glib0
- libpulse0
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5qml5
- libqt5quick5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pa package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.