How To Install libuchardet-dev on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libuchardet-dev
on Debian 9.
What is libuchardet-dev
libuchardet-dev is:
uchardet is a C language binding of the original C++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by Mozilla.
uchardet is a encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.
The original code of universalchardet is available at http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/universalchardet
Techniques used by universalchardet are described at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/UniversalCharsetDetection.html
This package contains the development support files.
There are three methods to install libuchardet-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.
Install libuchardet-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libuchardet-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libuchardet-dev
Install libuchardet-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libuchardet-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libuchardet-dev
Install libuchardet-dev 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 libuchardet-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libuchardet-dev
How To Uninstall libuchardet-dev on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libuchardet-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libuchardet-dev
Uninstall libuchardet-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libuchardet-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libuchardet-dev
Remove libuchardet-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libuchardet-dev
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libuchardet-dev
Remove libuchardet-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libuchardet-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libuchardet-dev
Dependencies
libuchardet-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libuchardet-dev
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.