How To Install dh-cargo on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-cargo
on Debian 10.
What is dh-cargo
dh-cargo is:
dh-cargo provides a debhelper buildsystem to build Rust crates using Cargo.
Debian packages can use this buildsystem by passing “–buildsystem cargo” to dh; doing so allows commands like dh_auto_install and dh_auto_clean to work on a Cargo package.
Debian packages generated by debcargo use this buildsystem.
There are three methods to install dh-cargo
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 dh-cargo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-cargo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dh-cargo
Install dh-cargo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-cargo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dh-cargo
Install dh-cargo 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 dh-cargo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dh-cargo
How To Uninstall dh-cargo on Debian 10
To uninstall only the dh-cargo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dh-cargo
Uninstall dh-cargo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dh-cargo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dh-cargo
Remove dh-cargo Configurations and Data
To remove dh-cargo
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dh-cargo
Remove dh-cargo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dh-cargo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dh-cargo
Dependencies
dh-cargo have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-cargo
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.