How To Install blt on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blt on Debian 12.
What is blt
blt is:
BLT is a library of useful extensions for the Tcl language and the popular Tk graphical toolkit. It adds a vector and tree data type, background execution and some debugging tools to Tcl, and provides several new widgets for Tk, including graphs, bar-charts, trees, tabs, splines and hyper-links, as well as a new geometry manager, drag & drop support, and more.
This package is a dummy package which depends on the current BLT library.
There are three methods to install blt on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install blt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install blt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blt
Install blt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blt
Install blt 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 blt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blt
How To Uninstall blt on Debian 12
To uninstall only the blt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blt
Uninstall blt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blt
Remove blt Configurations and Data
To remove blt configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blt
Remove blt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blt
Dependencies
blt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blt package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.