How To Install icu-devtools-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icu-devtools-dbg on Debian 9.
What is icu-devtools-dbg
icu-devtools-dbg is:
ICU is a C++ and C library that provides robust and full-featured Unicode and locale support. This package contains programs used to manipulate data files found in the ICU sources and is a dependency of libicu-dev. End users would generally not need to install this package.
This package contains debugging symbols for icu-devtools.
There are three methods to install icu-devtools-dbg on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install icu-devtools-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icu-devtools-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icu-devtools-dbg
Install icu-devtools-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icu-devtools-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icu-devtools-dbg
Install icu-devtools-dbg 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 icu-devtools-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icu-devtools-dbg
How To Uninstall icu-devtools-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the icu-devtools-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icu-devtools-dbg
Uninstall icu-devtools-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icu-devtools-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icu-devtools-dbg
Remove icu-devtools-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove icu-devtools-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icu-devtools-dbg
Remove icu-devtools-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icu-devtools-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icu-devtools-dbg
Dependencies
icu-devtools-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icu-devtools-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
