How To Install tomboy-ng on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomboy-ng on Debian 12.
What is tomboy-ng
tomboy-ng is:
tomboy-ng notes allows easy management of a large or small set of notes. Notes can contain a range of font sizes, bold, italic and highlight. Available for Linux, Windows amd Mac and easy sync between them. This is the QT5 based version.
There are three methods to install tomboy-ng 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 tomboy-ng Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tomboy-ng using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tomboy-ng
Install tomboy-ng Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tomboy-ng using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tomboy-ng
Install tomboy-ng 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 tomboy-ng using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tomboy-ng
How To Uninstall tomboy-ng on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tomboy-ng package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tomboy-ng
Uninstall tomboy-ng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tomboy-ng and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tomboy-ng
Remove tomboy-ng Configurations and Data
To remove tomboy-ng configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tomboy-ng
Remove tomboy-ng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tomboy-ng configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tomboy-ng
Dependencies
tomboy-ng have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libqt5pas1
- libx11-6
- wmctrl
- libnotify-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomboy-ng package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
