How To Install duktape-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install duktape-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. duktape-dev is embeddable Javascript engine, development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install duktape-dev on Debian 10.

What is duktape-dev

duktape-dev is:

Duktape is an embeddable Javascript engine, with a focus on portability and compact footprint.

Duktape is easy to integrate into a C/C++ project: add duktape.c, duktape.h, and duk_config.h to your build, and use the Duktape API to call Ecmascript functions from C code and vice versa.

This package contains all source files to use in own projects.

There are three methods to install duktape-dev 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 duktape-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install duktape-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install duktape-dev

Install duktape-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install duktape-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install duktape-dev

Install duktape-dev 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 duktape-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install duktape-dev

How To Uninstall duktape-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the duktape-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove duktape-dev

Uninstall duktape-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove duktape-dev

Remove duktape-dev Configurations and Data

To remove duktape-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge duktape-dev

Remove duktape-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove duktape-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge duktape-dev

Dependencies

duktape-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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