How To Install liboauth0 on Debian 10

Learn how to install liboauth0 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. liboauth0 is C library implementing OAuth Core 1.0a API (runtime)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboauth0 on Debian 10.

What is liboauth0

liboauth0 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 shared libraries.

There are three methods to install liboauth0 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 liboauth0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liboauth0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboauth0

Install liboauth0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboauth0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboauth0

Install liboauth0 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 liboauth0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboauth0

How To Uninstall liboauth0 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the liboauth0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboauth0

Uninstall liboauth0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboauth0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboauth0

Remove liboauth0 Configurations and Data

To remove liboauth0 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboauth0

Remove liboauth0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboauth0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboauth0

Dependencies

liboauth0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboauth0 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.