How To Install plasma-thunderbolt on Debian 12

Learn how to install plasma-thunderbolt on Debian 12 with this tutorial. plasma-thunderbolt is Plasma addons for managing Thunderbolt devices

Introduction

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

What is plasma-thunderbolt

plasma-thunderbolt is:

Plasma System settings module and a KDED module to handle authorization of Thunderbolt devices connected to the computer.

There are three methods to install plasma-thunderbolt 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-thunderbolt 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-thunderbolt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-thunderbolt

Install plasma-thunderbolt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plasma-thunderbolt

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

sudo aptitude -y install plasma-thunderbolt

How To Uninstall plasma-thunderbolt on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove plasma-thunderbolt

Uninstall plasma-thunderbolt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-thunderbolt

Remove plasma-thunderbolt Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-thunderbolt

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

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

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

Dependencies

plasma-thunderbolt have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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