How To Install libsdl-ocaml on Debian 10

Learn how to install libsdl-ocaml on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libsdl-ocaml is OCaml bindings for SDL - runtime files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsdl-ocaml on Debian 10.

What is libsdl-ocaml

libsdl-ocaml is:

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a generic API that provides low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, and display framebuffer across multiple platforms. OCamlSDL is an OCaml interface to the SDL and might be used to write multimedia applications in Objective Caml.

This package contains runtime libraries needed for running dynamic bytecode executables.

There are three methods to install libsdl-ocaml 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 libsdl-ocaml Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsdl-ocaml

Install libsdl-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libsdl-ocaml

Install libsdl-ocaml 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 libsdl-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsdl-ocaml

How To Uninstall libsdl-ocaml on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libsdl-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsdl-ocaml

Uninstall libsdl-ocaml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsdl-ocaml

Remove libsdl-ocaml Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libsdl-ocaml

Remove libsdl-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsdl-ocaml

Dependencies

libsdl-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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