How To Install glew-utils on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glew-utils
on Debian 11.
What is glew-utils
glew-utils is:
For more information about GLEW please refer to the description of the libglew-dev package.
This package contains the utilities which can be used to query the supported OpenGL extensions.
There are three methods to install glew-utils
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 glew-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glew-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glew-utils
Install glew-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glew-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glew-utils
Install glew-utils 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 glew-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glew-utils
How To Uninstall glew-utils on Debian 11
To uninstall only the glew-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glew-utils
Uninstall glew-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glew-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glew-utils
Remove glew-utils Configurations and Data
To remove glew-utils
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glew-utils
Remove glew-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glew-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glew-utils
Dependencies
glew-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glew-utils
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.