How To Install sugar-read-activity on Debian 10

Learn how to install sugar-read-activity on Debian 10 with this tutorial. sugar-read-activity is Sugar Learning Platform - document viewer activity

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sugar-read-activity on Debian 10.

What is `sugar-read-activity`

sugar-read-activity is:

Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional ??office-desktop?? software.

Learner applications in Sugar are called Activities. They are software packages that automatically save your work - producing specific instances of the Activity that can be resumed at a later time. Many Activities support learner collaboration, where multiple learners may be invited to join a collective Activity session.

The Read activity provides a document viewer that can display PDF, epub, djvu, and plain txt.

There are three methods to install sugar-read-activity 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 sugar-read-activity Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install sugar-read-activity using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sugar-read-activity

Install sugar-read-activity Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sugar-read-activity using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sugar-read-activity

Install sugar-read-activity 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 sugar-read-activity using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sugar-read-activity

How To Uninstall sugar-read-activity on Debian 10

To uninstall only the sugar-read-activity package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sugar-read-activity

Uninstall sugar-read-activity And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sugar-read-activity and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sugar-read-activity

Remove sugar-read-activity Configurations and Data

To remove sugar-read-activity configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sugar-read-activity

Remove sugar-read-activity configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove sugar-read-activity configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sugar-read-activity

Dependencies

sugar-read-activity have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sugar-read-activity package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.