How To Install libosinfo-bin on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo-bin
on Debian 9.
What is libosinfo-bin
libosinfo-bin is:
libosinfo is a GObject based library API for managing information about operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they can support. It includes a database containing device metadata and provides APIs to match/identify optimal devices for deploying an operating system on a hypervisor.
This package contains the runtime files to detect operating systems and query the database.
There are three methods to install libosinfo-bin
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 libosinfo-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libosinfo-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libosinfo-bin
Install libosinfo-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libosinfo-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libosinfo-bin
Install libosinfo-bin 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 libosinfo-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libosinfo-bin
How To Uninstall libosinfo-bin on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libosinfo-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libosinfo-bin
Uninstall libosinfo-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libosinfo-bin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libosinfo-bin
Remove libosinfo-bin Configurations and Data
To remove libosinfo-bin
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libosinfo-bin
Remove libosinfo-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libosinfo-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libosinfo-bin
Dependencies
libosinfo-bin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libosinfo-bin
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.