How To Install libkabc4 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libkabc4
on Debian 10.
What is libkabc4
libkabc4 is:
This library provides an API for address book data. It includes features such as:
- Value based interface, addressbook entry data is implicitly shared.
- Address book entries are identified by a unique id.
- vCard backend (RFC 2425 / RFC 2426).
- Locking mechanism to support concurrent access to the address book by multiple processes.
- Notification on change of addressbook by other process.
- Dialog for selecting address book entries, supports mouse and keyboard selection, supports automatic name completion.
- GUI client for viewing, modifying address book data. This is aimed at developers not end users.
- Tool for converting data, written with libkab, to libkabc format.
- Multiple backends (resources) for storing entries e.g. LDAP
This package is part of the KDE Development Platform PIM libraries module.
There are three methods to install libkabc4
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 libkabc4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libkabc4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libkabc4
Install libkabc4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libkabc4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libkabc4
Install libkabc4 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 libkabc4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libkabc4
How To Uninstall libkabc4 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libkabc4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libkabc4
Uninstall libkabc4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libkabc4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libkabc4
Remove libkabc4 Configurations and Data
To remove libkabc4
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libkabc4
Remove libkabc4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libkabc4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libkabc4
Dependencies
libkabc4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libkabc4
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.