How To Install open-vm-tools-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install open-vm-tools-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. open-vm-tools-dev is Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (development)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-dev on Debian 10.

What is open-vm-tools-dev

open-vm-tools-dev is:

The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) project is an open source implementation of VMware Tools. It is a suite of virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the functionality, user experience and administration of VMware virtual machines.

This package contains the development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install open-vm-tools-dev

Install open-vm-tools-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install open-vm-tools-dev

Install open-vm-tools-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 open-vm-tools-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install open-vm-tools-dev

How To Uninstall open-vm-tools-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the open-vm-tools-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools-dev

Uninstall open-vm-tools-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove open-vm-tools-dev

Remove open-vm-tools-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge open-vm-tools-dev

Remove open-vm-tools-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge open-vm-tools-dev

Dependencies

open-vm-tools-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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