How To Install dh-buildinfo on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-buildinfo on Debian 11.
What is dh-buildinfo
dh-buildinfo is:
This script is designed to be run at build-time, and registers in a file the list of packages declared as build-time dependencies, as well as build-essential packages, together with their versions, as installed in the build machine.
This will hopefully help to track packages (auto-)built with package versions which are known to be buggy, and, more generally, to find out whether a package needs to be rebuilt because of a significant change in a package it has a build-time dependency on.
There are three methods to install dh-buildinfo 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 dh-buildinfo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-buildinfo using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dh-buildinfo
Install dh-buildinfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-buildinfo using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dh-buildinfo
Install dh-buildinfo 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 dh-buildinfo using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dh-buildinfo
How To Uninstall dh-buildinfo on Debian 11
To uninstall only the dh-buildinfo package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dh-buildinfo
Uninstall dh-buildinfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dh-buildinfo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dh-buildinfo
Remove dh-buildinfo Configurations and Data
To remove dh-buildinfo configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dh-buildinfo
Remove dh-buildinfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dh-buildinfo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dh-buildinfo
Dependencies
dh-buildinfo have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-buildinfo package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
