How To Install liboauth-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboauth-dev on Debian 9. liboauth-dev is C library for implementing OAuth 1.0 (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboauth-dev on Debian 9.

What is liboauth-dev

liboauth-dev is:

liboauth is a collection of C functions implementing the OAuth Core 1.0 standard API. liboauth provides basic functions to escape and encode parameters according to OAuth specs 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 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 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 9

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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.