How To Install reportbug-gtk on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reportbug-gtk on Debian 10.
What is reportbug-gtk
reportbug-gtk is:
reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian and derived distributions relatively painless. Its features include:
- Integration with mutt and mh/nmh mail readers.
- Access to outstanding bug reports to make it easier to identify whether problems have already been reported.
- Automatic checking for newer versions of packages.
- Optional automatic verification of integrity of packages via debsums.
- Support for following-up on outstanding reports.
- Optional PGP/GnuPG integration.
reportbug is designed to be used on systems with an installed mail transport agent, like exim or sendmail; however, you can edit the configuration file and send reports using any available mail server.
This package contains a desktop file and icon, and has dependencies to enable the GTK+ UI mode of reportbug to work.
There are three methods to install reportbug-gtk 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 reportbug-gtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install reportbug-gtk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install reportbug-gtk
Install reportbug-gtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install reportbug-gtk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install reportbug-gtk
Install reportbug-gtk 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 reportbug-gtk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install reportbug-gtk
How To Uninstall reportbug-gtk on Debian 10
To uninstall only the reportbug-gtk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove reportbug-gtk
Uninstall reportbug-gtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall reportbug-gtk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove reportbug-gtk
Remove reportbug-gtk Configurations and Data
To remove reportbug-gtk configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge reportbug-gtk
Remove reportbug-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove reportbug-gtk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reportbug-gtk
Dependencies
reportbug-gtk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reportbug-gtk package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.