How To Install usermetricsservice on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install usermetricsservice on Debian 12.
What is usermetricsservice
usermetricsservice is:
Libusermetrics enables apps to locally store interesting numerical data for later presentation. For example in the Ubuntu Greeter “flower” infographic.
- All data is stored locally in /var/usermetrics/.
- No data is centrally collected via a web-serivice or otherwise, and no data is sent over the internet.
The only data that can be stored is numerical, for example “number of e-mails” or “number of pictures taken”. No personally identifying information is stored using this library.
The Libusermetrics components are used by the Lomiri Operating Environment.
This package contains the service which stores the metrics.
There are three methods to install usermetricsservice 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 usermetricsservice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install usermetricsservice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install usermetricsservice
Install usermetricsservice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install usermetricsservice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install usermetricsservice
Install usermetricsservice 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 usermetricsservice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install usermetricsservice
How To Uninstall usermetricsservice on Debian 12
To uninstall only the usermetricsservice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove usermetricsservice
Uninstall usermetricsservice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall usermetricsservice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove usermetricsservice
Remove usermetricsservice Configurations and Data
To remove usermetricsservice configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge usermetricsservice
Remove usermetricsservice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove usermetricsservice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge usermetricsservice
Dependencies
usermetricsservice have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- dbus
- libqt5sql5-sqlite
- sqlite3
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libapparmor1
- libc6
- libclick-0.4-0
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libqdjango-db0
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5sql5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install usermetricsservice package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
