How To Install libalien-sdl-dev-perl on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libalien-sdl-dev-perl
on Debian 10.
What is libalien-sdl-dev-perl
libalien-sdl-dev-perl is:
Perl’s idea of a metapackage to provide C library dependencies for Perl SDL application.
When building from source, this package can be used to detect and get configuration settings from an installed SDL and related libraries. As a binary package, it provides information on native libs used when building this package.
Regarding the native C libraries, all packages built with libalien-sdl-perl must have at least the same build dependencies than libalien-sdl-perl. Since this list if not fun to maintain, this metapackage depends on all packages used to build libalien-sdl-perl (and also depends on libalien-sdl-perl).
There are three methods to install libalien-sdl-dev-perl
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 libalien-sdl-dev-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libalien-sdl-dev-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libalien-sdl-dev-perl
Install libalien-sdl-dev-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libalien-sdl-dev-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libalien-sdl-dev-perl
Install libalien-sdl-dev-perl 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 libalien-sdl-dev-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libalien-sdl-dev-perl
How To Uninstall libalien-sdl-dev-perl on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libalien-sdl-dev-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libalien-sdl-dev-perl
Uninstall libalien-sdl-dev-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libalien-sdl-dev-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libalien-sdl-dev-perl
Remove libalien-sdl-dev-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libalien-sdl-dev-perl
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libalien-sdl-dev-perl
Remove libalien-sdl-dev-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libalien-sdl-dev-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libalien-sdl-dev-perl
Dependencies
libalien-sdl-dev-perl have the following dependencies:
- freeglut3-dev
- libalien-sdl-perl
- libgl1-mesa-dev
- libjpeg-dev
- libpng-dev
- libsdl-gfx1.2-dev
- libsdl-image1.2-dev
- libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
- libsdl-net1.2-dev
- libsdl-pango-dev
- libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
- libsdl1.2-dev
- libsmpeg-dev
- libtiff-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libalien-sdl-dev-perl
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.