How To Install libmaliit-glib-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmaliit-glib-dev on Debian 12.
What is libmaliit-glib-dev
libmaliit-glib-dev is:
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via input context plugins. The communication link currently uses D-Bus. Maliit is an open source framework (LGPL 2) with open source plugins (BSD).
This package provides GLib development headers for the Maliit framework.
There are three methods to install libmaliit-glib-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmaliit-glib-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 libmaliit-glib-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmaliit-glib-dev
Install libmaliit-glib-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmaliit-glib-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmaliit-glib-dev
Install libmaliit-glib-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 libmaliit-glib-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmaliit-glib-dev
How To Uninstall libmaliit-glib-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libmaliit-glib-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmaliit-glib-dev
Uninstall libmaliit-glib-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmaliit-glib-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmaliit-glib-dev
Remove libmaliit-glib-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmaliit-glib-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmaliit-glib-dev
Remove libmaliit-glib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmaliit-glib-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmaliit-glib-dev
Dependencies
libmaliit-glib-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmaliit-glib-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
