How To Install libevas-bin on Debian 10

Learn how to install libevas-bin on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libevas-bin is EFL advanced canvas library - utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libevas-bin on Debian 10.

What is libevas-bin

libevas-bin is:

Evas is a clean display canvas API for several target display systems that can draw anti-aliased text, smooth super- and sub-sampled scaled images, alpha-blend objects and more.

It abstracts the graphics drawing characteristics of the display system by implementing a canvas where graphical objects can be created, manipulated, and modified. It then handles the rendering pipeline in an optimal way for the underlying device in order to minimize redraws, via a programmatically efficient API.

This is part of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

This package contains the evas cserve2 utilities.

There are three methods to install libevas-bin 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 libevas-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libevas-bin

Install libevas-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libevas-bin

Install libevas-bin 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 libevas-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libevas-bin

How To Uninstall libevas-bin on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libevas-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libevas-bin

Uninstall libevas-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libevas-bin

Remove libevas-bin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libevas-bin

Remove libevas-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libevas-bin

Dependencies

libevas-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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