How To Install libprotoc10 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc10 on Debian 9.
What is libprotoc10
libprotoc10 is:
Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data - similar to XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the “old” format.
Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.
This package contains the runtime library needed for the protocol buffer compiler.
There are three methods to install libprotoc10 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 libprotoc10 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libprotoc10 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprotoc10
Install libprotoc10 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprotoc10 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprotoc10
Install libprotoc10 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 libprotoc10 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprotoc10
How To Uninstall libprotoc10 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libprotoc10 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprotoc10
Uninstall libprotoc10 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprotoc10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprotoc10
Remove libprotoc10 Configurations and Data
To remove libprotoc10 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprotoc10
Remove libprotoc10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprotoc10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprotoc10
Dependencies
libprotoc10 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc10 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
