How To Install libcxxtools-dev on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcxxtools-dev on Debian 11. libcxxtools-dev is library of unrelated but useful C++ classes

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.