How To Install libxcb-imdkit0 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libxcb-imdkit0 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libxcb-imdkit0 is XIM protocol implementation in XCB

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxcb-imdkit0 on Debian 10.

What is libxcb-imdkit0

libxcb-imdkit0 is:

xcb-imdkit is an implementation of XIM protocol in XCB. Comparing with the implementation of IMDkit with Xlib and xim inside Xlib, it has less memory foot print, better performance and safer on malformed client.

It doesn’t have complete protocol support though since some part of the protocol is never used.

This package provides shared library of xcb-imdkit.

There are three methods to install libxcb-imdkit0 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 libxcb-imdkit0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libxcb-imdkit0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libxcb-imdkit0

Install libxcb-imdkit0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libxcb-imdkit0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libxcb-imdkit0

Install libxcb-imdkit0 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 libxcb-imdkit0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxcb-imdkit0

How To Uninstall libxcb-imdkit0 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libxcb-imdkit0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libxcb-imdkit0

Uninstall libxcb-imdkit0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libxcb-imdkit0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxcb-imdkit0

Remove libxcb-imdkit0 Configurations and Data

To remove libxcb-imdkit0 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxcb-imdkit0

Remove libxcb-imdkit0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libxcb-imdkit0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxcb-imdkit0

Dependencies

libxcb-imdkit0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxcb-imdkit0 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.