How To Install nasm on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install nasm on Debian 9. nasm is General-purpose x86 assembler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nasm on Debian 9.

What is nasm

nasm is:

Netwide Assembler. NASM will currently output flat-form binary files, a.out, COFF and ELF Unix object files, and Microsoft 16-bit DOS and Win32 object files.

Also included is NDISASM, a prototype x86 binary-file disassembler which uses the same instruction table as NASM.

NASM is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

There are three methods to install nasm 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 nasm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install nasm

Install nasm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nasm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nasm

Install nasm 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 nasm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nasm

How To Uninstall nasm on Debian 9

To uninstall only the nasm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nasm

Uninstall nasm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nasm

Remove nasm Configurations and Data

To remove nasm configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nasm

Remove nasm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nasm

Dependencies

nasm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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