How To Install libconduit-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libconduit-ocaml-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libconduit-ocaml-dev is network connection establishment library for OCaml (dev)

Introduction

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

What is libconduit-ocaml-dev

libconduit-ocaml-dev is:

The conduit library takes care of establishing and listening for TCP and SSL/TLS connections for the Lwt and Async libraries.

The reason this library exists is to provide a degree of abstraction from the precise SSL library used, since there are a variety of ways to bind to a library (e.g. the C FFI, or the Ctypes library), as well as well as which library is used (just OpenSSL for now).

By default, OpenSSL is used as the preferred connection library, but you can force the use of the pure OCaml TLS stack by setting the environment variable CONDUIT_TLS=native when starting your program.

This package contains development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libconduit-ocaml-dev

Install libconduit-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libconduit-ocaml-dev

Install libconduit-ocaml-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 libconduit-ocaml-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libconduit-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libconduit-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libconduit-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libconduit-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libconduit-ocaml-dev

Remove libconduit-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libconduit-ocaml-dev

Remove libconduit-ocaml-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libconduit-ocaml-dev

Dependencies

libconduit-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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