How To Install transmission-common on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-common on Debian 10.
What is transmission-common
transmission-common is:
Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). All its incarnations feature a very simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.
This package contains the common files for the different transmission versions.
There are three methods to install transmission-common 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 transmission-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install transmission-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install transmission-common
Install transmission-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install transmission-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install transmission-common
Install transmission-common 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 transmission-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install transmission-common
How To Uninstall transmission-common on Debian 10
To uninstall only the transmission-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove transmission-common
Uninstall transmission-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall transmission-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove transmission-common
Remove transmission-common Configurations and Data
To remove transmission-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge transmission-common
Remove transmission-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove transmission-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge transmission-common
Dependencies
transmission-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.