How To Install libvmime-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libvmime-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libvmime-dev is C++ mail library (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvmime-dev on Debian 10.

What is libvmime-dev

libvmime-dev is:

VMime is a powerful C++ class library for parsing, generating, or editing Internet RFC-[2]822 and MIME messages. VMime is designed to provide a fast and an easy way to manipulate Internet mail messages.

The recent releases of VMime also include support for using messaging protocols (POP3, IMAP, SMTP and maildir) with a lot of features supported: listing folders, downloading and adding messages to folders, extracting parts from message, getting and setting message flags, and a lot more.

This package contains the development headers and the static library to develop applications using the libvmime.

There are three methods to install libvmime-dev 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 libvmime-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 libvmime-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libvmime-dev

Install libvmime-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libvmime-dev

Install libvmime-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 libvmime-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvmime-dev

How To Uninstall libvmime-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libvmime-dev

Uninstall libvmime-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvmime-dev

Remove libvmime-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libvmime-dev

Remove libvmime-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvmime-dev

Dependencies

libvmime-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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