How To Install libmwaw-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install libmwaw-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libmwaw-tools is import library for some old Mac text documents – tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmwaw-tools on Debian 10.

What is libmwaw-tools

libmwaw-tools is:

libmwaw contains some import filters for old Mac text documents (MacWrite, ClarisWorks, … ) based on top of libwpd.

This package contains mwaw2html, mwaw2raw and mwaw2text.

There are three methods to install libmwaw-tools 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 libmwaw-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmwaw-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmwaw-tools

Install libmwaw-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libmwaw-tools

Install libmwaw-tools 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 libmwaw-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmwaw-tools

How To Uninstall libmwaw-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libmwaw-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmwaw-tools

Uninstall libmwaw-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmwaw-tools

Remove libmwaw-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libmwaw-tools

Remove libmwaw-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmwaw-tools

Dependencies

libmwaw-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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