How To Install syncthingtray on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install syncthingtray on Debian 12.
What is syncthingtray
syncthingtray is:
Syncthing Tray is a user-friendly frontend for Syncthing. The tray applet contains a dashboard and remote controls for Syncthing.
This package makes Syncthing easier to use because it provides desktop integration; The familiarity of a desktop interface makes it easier to add shared folders and remote nodes, as well as to associate them with each other. It also provides quick access to the Device ID QR code so that phones can be more easily added to the mesh network.
Syncthing Tray is also typically used to enable, monitor, and control the Syncthing systemd service. Finally, a program called “syncthingctl” is provided as an additional remote control; it may be useful in scripts.
Syncthing is an application for decentralised file synchronisation and p2p folder sharing. It is an alternative solution to Dropbox, Google Drive, and WebDav. Syncthing also fulfills (or exceeds) the requirements for file synchronisation that users of iCloud, ownCloud, or Nextcloud expect.
This package contains the tray applet, and syncthingctl. Users of KDE Plasma will benefit from superior integration as well as addition features provided in the “syncthingtray-kde-plasma” package.
There are three methods to install syncthingtray on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install syncthingtray Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install syncthingtray using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install syncthingtray
Install syncthingtray Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install syncthingtray using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install syncthingtray
Install syncthingtray 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 syncthingtray using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install syncthingtray
How To Uninstall syncthingtray on Debian 12
To uninstall only the syncthingtray package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove syncthingtray
Uninstall syncthingtray And Its Dependencies
To uninstall syncthingtray and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove syncthingtray
Remove syncthingtray Configurations and Data
To remove syncthingtray configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge syncthingtray
Remove syncthingtray configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove syncthingtray configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge syncthingtray
Dependencies
syncthingtray have the following dependencies:
- libboost-filesystem1.74.0
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libmartchus-c++utilities5
- libmartchus-qtforkawesome1
- libmartchus-qtutilities6
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5network5
- libqt5qml5
- libqt5svg5
- libqt5webenginecore5
- libqt5webenginewidgets5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install syncthingtray package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
