How To Install aidl on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aidl
on Debian 9.
What is aidl
aidl is:
aidl is a utility to generate Java and/or C++ code from Android’s Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL). AIDL is similar to other IDLs you might have worked with. It allows you to define the programming interface that both the client and service agree upon in order to communicate with each other using interprocess communication (IPC). On Android, one process cannot normally access the memory of another process. So to talk, they need to decompose their objects into primitives that the operating system can understand, and marshall the objects across that boundary for you. The code to do that marshalling is tedious to write, so Android handles it for you with AIDL. This package provides two tools:
- “aidl” which generates Java bindings.
- “aidl-cpp” which generates C++ bindings.
For more info, see: https://developer.android.com/guide/components/aidl.html
There are three methods to install aidl
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 aidl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aidl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aidl
Install aidl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aidl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aidl
Install aidl 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 aidl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aidl
How To Uninstall aidl on Debian 9
To uninstall only the aidl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aidl
Uninstall aidl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aidl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aidl
Remove aidl Configurations and Data
To remove aidl
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aidl
Remove aidl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aidl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aidl
Dependencies
aidl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aidl
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.