How To Install clang-tidy-8 on Debian 10

Learn how to install clang-tidy-8 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. clang-tidy-8 is

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-tidy-8 on Debian 10.

What is clang-tidy-8

clang-tidy-8 is:

There are three methods to install clang-tidy-8 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install clang-tidy-8 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install clang-tidy-8 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install clang-tidy-8

Install clang-tidy-8 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install clang-tidy-8 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install clang-tidy-8

Install clang-tidy-8 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 clang-tidy-8 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clang-tidy-8

How To Uninstall clang-tidy-8 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the clang-tidy-8 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove clang-tidy-8

Uninstall clang-tidy-8 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall clang-tidy-8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clang-tidy-8

Remove clang-tidy-8 Configurations and Data

To remove clang-tidy-8 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge clang-tidy-8

Remove clang-tidy-8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove clang-tidy-8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clang-tidy-8

Dependencies

clang-tidy-8 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clang-tidy-8 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.