How To Install libm17n-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libm17n-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libm17n-dev is multilingual text processing library - development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libm17n-dev on Debian 10.

What is libm17n-dev

libm17n-dev 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 the header and development files needed to build programs and packages using m17n-lib.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libm17n-dev

Install libm17n-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libm17n-dev

Install libm17n-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 libm17n-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libm17n-dev

How To Uninstall libm17n-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libm17n-dev

Uninstall libm17n-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libm17n-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libm17n-dev

Remove libm17n-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libm17n-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libm17n-dev

Remove libm17n-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libm17n-dev

Dependencies

libm17n-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libm17n-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.