How To Install guile-cairo-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install guile-cairo-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. guile-cairo-dev is Guile bindings for Cairo, development files

Introduction

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

What is guile-cairo-dev

guile-cairo-dev is:

This package contains the info manual for guile-cairo and the header files to allow compilation of wrappers depending on guile-cairo. Cairo is a multi-platform library providing anti-aliased vector-based rendering for multiple target backends.

There are three methods to install guile-cairo-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 guile-cairo-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 guile-cairo-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install guile-cairo-dev

Install guile-cairo-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install guile-cairo-dev

Install guile-cairo-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 guile-cairo-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install guile-cairo-dev

How To Uninstall guile-cairo-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove guile-cairo-dev

Uninstall guile-cairo-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove guile-cairo-dev

Remove guile-cairo-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge guile-cairo-dev

Remove guile-cairo-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guile-cairo-dev

Dependencies

guile-cairo-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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