How To Install gwenhywfar-tools on Debian 12

Learn how to install gwenhywfar-tools on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gwenhywfar-tools is helper applications for Gwenhywfar library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gwenhywfar-tools on Debian 12.

What is gwenhywfar-tools

gwenhywfar-tools is:

This package contains some helper tools provided by Gwenhywfar and useful for applications making use of Gwenhywfar: mklistdoc, gct-tool, xmlmerge and typemaker.

Gwenhywfar allows porting of your software to different operating systems like Linux, *BSD, Windows etc. It also provides some often needed modules such as configuration file handling, simple XML file parsing, IPC etc.

There are three methods to install gwenhywfar-tools on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gwenhywfar-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gwenhywfar-tools

Install gwenhywfar-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gwenhywfar-tools

Install gwenhywfar-tools 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 gwenhywfar-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gwenhywfar-tools

How To Uninstall gwenhywfar-tools on Debian 12

To uninstall only the gwenhywfar-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gwenhywfar-tools

Uninstall gwenhywfar-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gwenhywfar-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gwenhywfar-tools

Remove gwenhywfar-tools Configurations and Data

To remove gwenhywfar-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gwenhywfar-tools

Remove gwenhywfar-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gwenhywfar-tools

Dependencies

gwenhywfar-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gwenhywfar-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.