How To Install cairo-5c on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-5c on Debian 11. cairo-5c is nickle bindings for the cairo graphics library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-5c on Debian 11.

What is cairo-5c

cairo-5c is:

This package contains the nickle code to load and use the cairo-5c library, along with examples of how to use it and a simple toolkit, nichrome, which allows applications to build user interfaces entirely in nickle.

There are three methods to install cairo-5c on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cairo-5c Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cairo-5c using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cairo-5c

Install cairo-5c Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cairo-5c using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cairo-5c

Install cairo-5c 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 cairo-5c using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cairo-5c

How To Uninstall cairo-5c on Debian 11

To uninstall only the cairo-5c package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cairo-5c

Uninstall cairo-5c And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cairo-5c and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cairo-5c

Remove cairo-5c Configurations and Data

To remove cairo-5c configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cairo-5c

Remove cairo-5c configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cairo-5c configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cairo-5c

Dependencies

cairo-5c have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-5c package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.