How To Install qt5-style-plugins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-style-plugins on Debian 9. qt5-style-plugins is Qt 5 extra widget styles

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-style-plugins on Debian 9.

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 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 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 9

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 9, 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 9 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:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-style-plugins package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.