How To Install liballeggl4-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install liballeggl4-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. liballeggl4-dev is development files for the allegrogl library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liballeggl4-dev on Debian 10.

What is liballeggl4-dev

liballeggl4-dev is:

This package contains the development headers for liballeggl.

AllegroGL is an Allegro add-on that allows you to use OpenGL alongside Allegro – you use OpenGL for your rendering to the screen, and Allegro for miscellaneous tasks like gathering input, doing timers, getting cross-platform portability, loading data, and drawing your textures. So this library fills the same hole that things like glut do.

AllegroGL also automatically exposes most, if not all, OpenGL extensions available to user programs. This means you no longer have to manually load them; extension management is already done for you.

Allegro is a cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform.

There are three methods to install liballeggl4-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 liballeggl4-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 liballeggl4-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liballeggl4-dev

Install liballeggl4-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liballeggl4-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liballeggl4-dev

Install liballeggl4-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 liballeggl4-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liballeggl4-dev

How To Uninstall liballeggl4-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the liballeggl4-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liballeggl4-dev

Uninstall liballeggl4-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liballeggl4-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liballeggl4-dev

Remove liballeggl4-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liballeggl4-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liballeggl4-dev

Remove liballeggl4-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liballeggl4-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liballeggl4-dev

Dependencies

liballeggl4-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liballeggl4-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.