How To Install libastyle-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libastyle-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libastyle-dev is Library header files for Artistic Style

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libastyle-dev on Debian 10.

What is libastyle-dev

libastyle-dev is:

Artistic Style is a source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier for the C, C++, C++/CLI, Objective-C, C# and Java programming languages.

This package contains the development headers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libastyle-dev

Install libastyle-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libastyle-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libastyle-dev

How To Uninstall libastyle-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libastyle-dev

Uninstall libastyle-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libastyle-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libastyle-dev

Remove libastyle-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libastyle-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libastyle-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libastyle-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libastyle-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.