How To Install libchild-perl on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libchild-perl on Debian 12.
What is libchild-perl
libchild-perl is:
Fork is too low level, and difficult to manage. Often people forget to exit at the end, reap their children, and check exit status. The problem is the low level functions provided to do these things. Throw in pipes for IPC and you just have a pile of things nobody wants to think about.
Child is an Object Oriented interface to fork. It provides a clean way to start a child process, and manage it afterwords. It provides methods for running, waiting, killing, checking, and even communicating with a child process.
There are three methods to install libchild-perl 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 libchild-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 libchild-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libchild-perl
Install libchild-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libchild-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libchild-perl
Install libchild-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 libchild-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libchild-perl
How To Uninstall libchild-perl on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libchild-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libchild-perl
Uninstall libchild-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libchild-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libchild-perl
Remove libchild-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libchild-perl configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libchild-perl
Remove libchild-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libchild-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libchild-perl
Dependencies
libchild-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libchild-perl package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
