How To Install libm17n-0-dbg on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libm17n-0-dbg on Debian 9. libm17n-0-dbg is multilingual text processing library - debugging symbols

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libm17n-0-dbg on Debian 9.

What is libm17n-0-dbg

libm17n-0-dbg is:

The m17n library is a multilingual text processing library for the C language. This library has following features:

  • The m17n library is an open source software.
  • The m17n library for any Linux/Unix applications.
  • The m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of applications.
  • The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text. M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any information required to input, display and edit the text.
  • The m17n library supports functions to handle M-texts.

m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.

This package contains unstripped shared libraries. it is provided primarily to provide a backtrace with names in a debugger, this makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps. The libraries are installed in /usr/lib/debug and can be used by placing that directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Most people will not need this package.

There are three methods to install libm17n-0-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 libm17n-0-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 libm17n-0-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libm17n-0-dbg

Install libm17n-0-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libm17n-0-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libm17n-0-dbg

Install libm17n-0-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 libm17n-0-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libm17n-0-dbg

How To Uninstall libm17n-0-dbg on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libm17n-0-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libm17n-0-dbg

Uninstall libm17n-0-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libm17n-0-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libm17n-0-dbg

Remove libm17n-0-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove libm17n-0-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libm17n-0-dbg

Remove libm17n-0-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libm17n-0-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libm17n-0-dbg

Dependencies

libm17n-0-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libm17n-0-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.