How To Install libview-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libview-dev on Debian 11.
What is libview-dev
libview-dev is:
libview is VMware’s Incredibly Exciting Widgets, a useful collection of GTK+ widgets used within VMware products, free for everybody’s use.
This library consists of several widgets that are used by VMware in Workstation and other products and has been given back to the OSS community. These widgets are under the MIT license and are largely written in C++ for GTKMM.
This is the development package.
There are three methods to install libview-dev on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libview-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 libview-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libview-dev
Install libview-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libview-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libview-dev
Install libview-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 libview-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libview-dev
How To Uninstall libview-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libview-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libview-dev
Uninstall libview-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libview-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libview-dev
Remove libview-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libview-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libview-dev
Remove libview-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libview-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libview-dev
Dependencies
libview-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libview-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
