How To Install blt-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install blt-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. blt-dev is graphics extension library for Tcl/Tk - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blt-dev on Debian 10.

What is blt-dev

blt-dev is:

BLT is a library of useful extensions for the Tcl language and the popular Tk graphical toolkit. It adds a vector and tree data type, background execution and some debugging tools to Tcl, and provides several new widgets for Tk, including graphs, bar-charts, trees, tabs, splines and hyper-links, as well as a new geometry manager, drag & drop support, and more.

This package contains the headers and libraries needed to extend or embed BLT.

There are three methods to install blt-dev 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 blt-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install blt-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install blt-dev

Install blt-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install blt-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install blt-dev

Install blt-dev 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 blt-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install blt-dev

How To Uninstall blt-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the blt-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove blt-dev

Uninstall blt-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall blt-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove blt-dev

Remove blt-dev Configurations and Data

To remove blt-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge blt-dev

Remove blt-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove blt-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blt-dev

Dependencies

blt-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blt-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.