How To Install libgsl-dbg on Debian 10

Learn how to install libgsl-dbg on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libgsl-dbg is GNU Scientific Library (GSL) – debug symbols package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgsl-dbg on Debian 10.

What is libgsl-dbg

libgsl-dbg is:

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis. The routines are written from scratch by the GSL team in C, and present a modern API for C programmers, while allowing wrappers to be written for very high level languages.

This package contains debugging symbol tables for the static GSL libraries libgsl and libgslcblas from the libgsl-dev package, and the binaries gsl-randist and gsl-histogram from the gsl-bin package.

URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgsl-dbg

Install libgsl-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libgsl-dbg

Install libgsl-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 libgsl-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgsl-dbg

How To Uninstall libgsl-dbg on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libgsl-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgsl-dbg

Uninstall libgsl-dbg And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgsl-dbg

Remove libgsl-dbg Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libgsl-dbg

Remove libgsl-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgsl-dbg

Dependencies

libgsl-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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