How To Install libstarlink-pal-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-pal-dev on Debian 9. libstarlink-pal-dev is Positional Astronomy Library (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstarlink-pal-dev on Debian 9.

libstarlink-pal-dev is:

This library is a collection of code designed to aid in replacing the SLA library with code from NOVAS and ERFA.

Where possible the API is similar to the C SLA API except for the use of a “pal” prefix.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install libstarlink-pal-dev 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libstarlink-pal-dev

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libstarlink-pal-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libstarlink-pal-dev

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 libstarlink-pal-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libstarlink-pal-dev

To uninstall only the libstarlink-pal-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libstarlink-pal-dev

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstarlink-pal-dev

To remove libstarlink-pal-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libstarlink-pal-dev

We can use the following command to remove libstarlink-pal-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstarlink-pal-dev

Dependencies

libstarlink-pal-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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