How To Install libprotoc17 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libprotoc17 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libprotoc17 is protocol buffers compiler library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc17 on Debian 10.

What is libprotoc17

libprotoc17 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 libprotoc17 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 libprotoc17 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libprotoc17 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libprotoc17

Install libprotoc17 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libprotoc17 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libprotoc17

Install libprotoc17 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 libprotoc17 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libprotoc17

How To Uninstall libprotoc17 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libprotoc17 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libprotoc17

Uninstall libprotoc17 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libprotoc17 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprotoc17

Remove libprotoc17 Configurations and Data

To remove libprotoc17 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libprotoc17

Remove libprotoc17 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libprotoc17 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprotoc17

Dependencies

libprotoc17 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc17 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.