How To Install libow-tcl on Debian 10

Learn how to install libow-tcl on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libow-tcl is Dallas 1-wire support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libow-tcl on Debian 10.

What is libow-tcl

libow-tcl is:

The 1-Wire bus is a cheap low-speed bus for devices like weather sensors, access control, etc. It can be attached to your system via serial, USB, I2C, and other interfaces.

This package contains Tcl bindings to the OWFS core library (libow), which is used to access 1-Wire networks

There are three methods to install libow-tcl 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 libow-tcl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libow-tcl

Install libow-tcl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libow-tcl

Install libow-tcl 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 libow-tcl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libow-tcl

How To Uninstall libow-tcl on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libow-tcl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libow-tcl

Uninstall libow-tcl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libow-tcl

Remove libow-tcl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libow-tcl

Remove libow-tcl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libow-tcl

Dependencies

libow-tcl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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