How To Install qshutdown on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qshutdown
on Debian 10.
What is qshutdown
qshutdown is:
qshutdown is a Qt program to shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate the computer at a given time or after a certain number of minutes. It shows the time until the corresponding request is send to either the Gnome- or KDE-session-manager, to HAL or to DeviceKit and if none of these works the command ‘sudo shutdown -P now’ is used. This program may be useful for people who want to work with the computer only for a certain time.
There are three methods to install qshutdown
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 qshutdown Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qshutdown
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qshutdown
Install qshutdown Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qshutdown
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qshutdown
Install qshutdown 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 qshutdown
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qshutdown
How To Uninstall qshutdown on Debian 10
To uninstall only the qshutdown
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qshutdown
Uninstall qshutdown And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qshutdown
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qshutdown
Remove qshutdown Configurations and Data
To remove qshutdown
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qshutdown
Remove qshutdown configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qshutdown
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qshutdown
Dependencies
qshutdown have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qshutdown
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.