How To Install plasma-phonebook on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-phonebook on Debian 12.
What is plasma-phonebook
plasma-phonebook is:
Contacts application which allows adding, modifying and removing contacts.
Plasma-phonebook is a contact application that primarily targets Plasma Mobile.
The application uses kpeople models to find, add, remove and update contacts. The actual vcard editing is done using KContacts, allowing to use the full range of fields vcards support. Plasma Phonebook ships its own KPeople plugin for displaying actions.
There are three methods to install plasma-phonebook 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-phonebook 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-phonebook using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-phonebook
Install plasma-phonebook Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-phonebook using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-phonebook
Install plasma-phonebook 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-phonebook using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-phonebook
How To Uninstall plasma-phonebook on Debian 12
To uninstall only the plasma-phonebook package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-phonebook
Uninstall plasma-phonebook And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-phonebook and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-phonebook
Remove plasma-phonebook Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-phonebook configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-phonebook
Remove plasma-phonebook configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-phonebook configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-phonebook
Dependencies
plasma-phonebook have the following dependencies:
- qml-module-org-kde-kirigami-addons-datetime
- qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2
- qml-module-qtquick-controls2
- libc6
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configgui5
- libkf5contacts5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-phonebook package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
