How To Install libevent-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libevent-dbg
on Debian 9.
What is libevent-dbg
libevent-dbg is:
Libevent is an asynchronous event notification library that provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached.
This package includes debugging information for libevent.
There are three methods to install libevent-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 libevent-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 libevent-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libevent-dbg
Install libevent-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libevent-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libevent-dbg
Install libevent-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 libevent-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libevent-dbg
How To Uninstall libevent-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libevent-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libevent-dbg
Uninstall libevent-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libevent-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libevent-dbg
Remove libevent-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libevent-dbg
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libevent-dbg
Remove libevent-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libevent-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libevent-dbg
Dependencies
libevent-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libevent-dbg
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.