How To Install kdelibs5-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install kdelibs5-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. kdelibs5-dev is development files for the KDE Development Platform libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdelibs5-dev on Debian 10.

What is kdelibs5-dev

kdelibs5-dev is:

This package contains development files for building KDE Applications and other software that uses the KDE Development Platform libraries.

This package is part of the KDE Development Platform libraries module.

There are three methods to install kdelibs5-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 kdelibs5-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 kdelibs5-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kdelibs5-dev

Install kdelibs5-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kdelibs5-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kdelibs5-dev

Install kdelibs5-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 kdelibs5-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kdelibs5-dev

How To Uninstall kdelibs5-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the kdelibs5-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kdelibs5-dev

Uninstall kdelibs5-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kdelibs5-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdelibs5-dev

Remove kdelibs5-dev Configurations and Data

To remove kdelibs5-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kdelibs5-dev

Remove kdelibs5-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kdelibs5-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdelibs5-dev

Dependencies

kdelibs5-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdelibs5-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.