How To Install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 on Debian 12

Learn how to install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 is C Library for handling module metadata files - introspection

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 on Debian 12.

What is gir1.2-modulemd-2.0

gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 is:

The libmodulemd API provides an interface for handling metadata files describing the modular repositories introduced in the Fedora project and RedHat Enterprise Linux.

This package contains the gobject-introspection definitions. Note that there is an override written in Python, so any packages that use the GObject introspection definitions with the libmodulemd Python bindings must also depend on python3:any and python3-six.

There are three methods to install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 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 gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0

Install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0

Install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 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 gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0

How To Uninstall gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gir1.2-modulemd-2.0

Uninstall gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gir1.2-modulemd-2.0

Remove gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 Configurations and Data

To remove gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gir1.2-modulemd-2.0

Remove gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gir1.2-modulemd-2.0

Dependencies

gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-modulemd-2.0 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.