How To Install libisocodes-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisocodes-dev on Debian 9. libisocodes-dev is access of iso-codes data and translations - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisocodes-dev on Debian 9.

What is libisocodes-dev

libisocodes-dev is:

This library can be used to easily access XML data of the iso-codes package. It will provide an abstraction layer to handle both the version 3 and the upcoming version 4 of iso-codes. Moreover, all available translations can be used as well.

This library makes use of the GObject introspection features, so that it is accessible from a variety of programming languages, for example C, Vala, Ruby, Python, Perl, Lua, JavaScript, PHP and many more.

Install this package if you wish to develop your own programs using the libisocodes library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libisocodes-dev

Install libisocodes-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libisocodes-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libisocodes-dev

How To Uninstall libisocodes-dev on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove libisocodes-dev

Uninstall libisocodes-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libisocodes-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libisocodes-dev

Remove libisocodes-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libisocodes-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libisocodes-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libisocodes-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisocodes-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.