How To Install libperformance-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libperformance-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libperformance-dev is GNUstep performance library (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libperformance-dev on Debian 10.

What is libperformance-dev

libperformance-dev is:

The GNUstep performace library implements various classes intended to be used in high-performance libraries and applications. Available are classes for caching objects in memory for rapid access, managing FIFO queues, thread pools for performing methods which need to make use of a runloop for I/O and/or timers, for objects in parallel in other threads, linked list functionality, timing information, statistics about the number of events or the duration of operations, uniqued objects and more.

This package contains the development files and the library reference documentation.

There are three methods to install libperformance-dev 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 libperformance-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 libperformance-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libperformance-dev

Install libperformance-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libperformance-dev

Install libperformance-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 libperformance-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libperformance-dev

How To Uninstall libperformance-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libperformance-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libperformance-dev

Uninstall libperformance-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libperformance-dev

Remove libperformance-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libperformance-dev

Remove libperformance-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libperformance-dev

Dependencies

libperformance-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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