How To Install qt5-style-plugins on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-style-plugins on Debian 10.
What is qt5-style-plugins
qt5-style-plugins is:
Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework. Qt’s primary feature is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality.
This package contains the following widget styles:
- Cleanlooks
- Motif
- Plastique
- GTK+ 2
It also provides the GTK+ 2 platformtheme, which you would likely want to use if you want the GTK+ 2 style. Export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2 to enable it for all Qt applications.
There are three methods to install qt5-style-plugins 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 qt5-style-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qt5-style-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qt5-style-plugins
Install qt5-style-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qt5-style-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qt5-style-plugins
Install qt5-style-plugins 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 qt5-style-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qt5-style-plugins
How To Uninstall qt5-style-plugins on Debian 10
To uninstall only the qt5-style-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qt5-style-plugins
Uninstall qt5-style-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qt5-style-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qt5-style-plugins
Remove qt5-style-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove qt5-style-plugins configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qt5-style-plugins
Remove qt5-style-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qt5-style-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qt5-style-plugins
Dependencies
qt5-style-plugins have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
- libx11-6
- qtbase-abi-5-11-3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-style-plugins package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.