How To Install liboauth-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboauth-dev on Debian 12.
What is liboauth-dev
liboauth-dev is:
OAuth (Open Authorization) is an authentication protocol that allows users to approve a client (such as a Twitter third-party app) to act on their behalf without sharing their password. liboauth provides basic functions to escape and encode parameters according to the OAuth Core 1.0a API, and offers high-level functions to sign requests or verify signatures.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install liboauth-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 liboauth-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 liboauth-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liboauth-dev
Install liboauth-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liboauth-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liboauth-dev
Install liboauth-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 liboauth-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liboauth-dev
How To Uninstall liboauth-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the liboauth-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liboauth-dev
Uninstall liboauth-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liboauth-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboauth-dev
Remove liboauth-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liboauth-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liboauth-dev
Remove liboauth-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liboauth-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboauth-dev
Dependencies
liboauth-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liboauth-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
