How To Install smoke-dev-tools on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install smoke-dev-tools on Debian 9. smoke-dev-tools is SMOKE development tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install smoke-dev-tools on Debian 9.

What is smoke-dev-tools

smoke-dev-tools is:

SMOKE provides infrastructure which is used for creating bindings for multiple languages such as Ruby, C# and PHP.

This package contains the development tools to do bindings with the Scripting MetaObject Kompiler Engine, used by several Qt and KDE bindings, as well as some bindings for the Wt library.

There are three methods to install smoke-dev-tools 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 smoke-dev-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install smoke-dev-tools

Install smoke-dev-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install smoke-dev-tools

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

sudo aptitude -y install smoke-dev-tools

How To Uninstall smoke-dev-tools on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove smoke-dev-tools

Uninstall smoke-dev-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove smoke-dev-tools

Remove smoke-dev-tools Configurations and Data

To remove smoke-dev-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge smoke-dev-tools

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smoke-dev-tools

Dependencies

smoke-dev-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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