How To Install libquazip-headers on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquazip-headers on Debian 9. libquazip-headers is C++ wrapper for ZIP/UNZIP (development header files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquazip-headers on Debian 9.

What is libquazip-headers

libquazip-headers is:

QuaZIP is a simple C++ wrapper over Gilles Vollant’s ZIP/UNZIP package that can be used to access ZIP archives. It uses Trolltech’s Qt toolkit.

QuaZIP allows you to access files inside ZIP archives using QIODevice API, and that means that you can also use QTextStream, QDataStream or whatever you would like to use on your zipped files.

QuaZIP provides complete abstraction of the ZIP/UNZIP API, for both reading from and writing to ZIP archives.

This package contains the headers of the library.

There are three methods to install libquazip-headers 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 libquazip-headers Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libquazip-headers

Install libquazip-headers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libquazip-headers

Install libquazip-headers 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 libquazip-headers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libquazip-headers

How To Uninstall libquazip-headers on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libquazip-headers package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libquazip-headers

Uninstall libquazip-headers And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libquazip-headers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libquazip-headers

Remove libquazip-headers Configurations and Data

To remove libquazip-headers configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libquazip-headers

Remove libquazip-headers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libquazip-headers

Dependencies

libquazip-headers have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquazip-headers package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.