How To Install sugar-read-activity on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sugar-read-activity
on Debian 11.
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 11. 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 11
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 11, 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 11 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:
- gir1.2-evince-3.0
- gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- gir1.2-pango-1.0
- gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12
- python3
- python3-cairo
- python3-dbus
- python3-gi
- python3-sugar3
- base-files
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sugar-read-activity
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.