How To Install libbidi-clojure on Debian 10

Learn how to install libbidi-clojure on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libbidi-clojure is bidirectional URI routing for Clojure

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbidi-clojure on Debian 10.

What is libbidi-clojure

libbidi-clojure is:

Bi-directional URI dispatch. Like compojure, but when you want to go both ways. If you are serving REST resources, you should be providing links to other resources, and without full support for forming URIs from handlers your code will become coupled with your routing. In short, hard-coded URIs will eventually break.

bidi provides a way to construct URIs from handlers.

There are three methods to install libbidi-clojure 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 libbidi-clojure Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libbidi-clojure using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbidi-clojure

Install libbidi-clojure Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libbidi-clojure

Install libbidi-clojure 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 libbidi-clojure using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbidi-clojure

How To Uninstall libbidi-clojure on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libbidi-clojure package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbidi-clojure

Uninstall libbidi-clojure And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbidi-clojure

Remove libbidi-clojure Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libbidi-clojure

Remove libbidi-clojure configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbidi-clojure

Dependencies

libbidi-clojure have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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