How To Install pth-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pth-dbg on Debian 9.
What is pth-dbg
pth-dbg is:
Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (“multithreading”) inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.
This package contains the debug symbols.
There are three methods to install pth-dbg 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 pth-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pth-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pth-dbg
Install pth-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pth-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pth-dbg
Install pth-dbg 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 pth-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pth-dbg
How To Uninstall pth-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the pth-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pth-dbg
Uninstall pth-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pth-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pth-dbg
Remove pth-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove pth-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pth-dbg
Remove pth-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pth-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pth-dbg
Dependencies
pth-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pth-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
