How To Install libsodium-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsodium-dbg on Debian 9.
What is libsodium-dbg
libsodium-dbg is:
NaCl (pronounced “salt”) is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc.
NaCl’s goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic tools.
Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API.
This package provides debugging symbols needed to debug libsodium itself.
There are three methods to install libsodium-dbg 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 libsodium-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsodium-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsodium-dbg
Install libsodium-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsodium-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsodium-dbg
Install libsodium-dbg 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 libsodium-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsodium-dbg
How To Uninstall libsodium-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libsodium-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsodium-dbg
Uninstall libsodium-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsodium-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsodium-dbg
Remove libsodium-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libsodium-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsodium-dbg
Remove libsodium-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsodium-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsodium-dbg
Dependencies
libsodium-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsodium-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
