How To Install libarchive-ar-perl on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libarchive-ar-perl on Debian 10.
What is libarchive-ar-perl
libarchive-ar-perl is:
Archive::Ar is a pure-perl way to handle standard ar archives.
This is useful if you have those types of old archives on the system, but it is also useful because .deb packages for the Debian distribution are ar archives. This is one building block in a future chain of modules to build, manipulate, extract, and test Debian modules with no platform or architecture dependence.
You may notice that the API to Archive::Ar is similar to Archive::Tar, and this was done intentionally to keep similarity between the Archive::* modules.
There are three methods to install libarchive-ar-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 libarchive-ar-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 libarchive-ar-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libarchive-ar-perl
Install libarchive-ar-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libarchive-ar-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libarchive-ar-perl
Install libarchive-ar-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 libarchive-ar-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libarchive-ar-perl
How To Uninstall libarchive-ar-perl on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libarchive-ar-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libarchive-ar-perl
Uninstall libarchive-ar-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libarchive-ar-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libarchive-ar-perl
Remove libarchive-ar-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libarchive-ar-perl configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libarchive-ar-perl
Remove libarchive-ar-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libarchive-ar-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libarchive-ar-perl
Dependencies
libarchive-ar-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libarchive-ar-perl package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.