How To Install libabiword-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libabiword-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libabiword-dev is efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration – development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libabiword-dev on Debian 12.

What is libabiword-dev

libabiword-dev is:

AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, and is extensible with a variety of plugins.

This package contains development files for software linking against libabiword-3.0.

There are three methods to install libabiword-dev 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 libabiword-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 libabiword-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libabiword-dev

Install libabiword-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libabiword-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libabiword-dev

How To Uninstall libabiword-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libabiword-dev

Uninstall libabiword-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libabiword-dev

Remove libabiword-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libabiword-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libabiword-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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