How To Install libcxxtools-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcxxtools-dev on Debian 11.
What is libcxxtools-dev
libcxxtools-dev is:
cxxtools contains an argument-parser, a base-64 encoder/decoder, a C++ interface to iconv, md5-stream for easy MD5 calculation, threading classes, socket classes, a dynamic exception-safe buffer, a wrapper for dlopen/dlsym, a pool template (e.g., for a connection pool in a multi-threaded application), query_params, and a class for easy parsing of CGI parameters (GET and POST) in a CGI program.
This package has the development headers and the static libraries.
There are three methods to install libcxxtools-dev on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcxxtools-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 libcxxtools-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcxxtools-dev
Install libcxxtools-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcxxtools-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcxxtools-dev
Install libcxxtools-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 libcxxtools-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcxxtools-dev
How To Uninstall libcxxtools-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libcxxtools-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcxxtools-dev
Uninstall libcxxtools-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcxxtools-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcxxtools-dev
Remove libcxxtools-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libcxxtools-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcxxtools-dev
Remove libcxxtools-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcxxtools-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcxxtools-dev
Dependencies
libcxxtools-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcxxtools-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.