How To Install libdevice-serialport-perl on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdevice-serialport-perl on Debian 9.

What is libdevice-serialport-perl

libdevice-serialport-perl is:

Device::SerialPort provides an object-based user interface essentially identical to the one provided by the Win32::SerialPort module. This provides device-level access to a system’s serial port.

Also included is modemtest – a tool for examining your modem using Device::SerialPort.

There are three methods to install libdevice-serialport-perl on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libdevice-serialport-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 libdevice-serialport-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libdevice-serialport-perl

Install libdevice-serialport-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libdevice-serialport-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libdevice-serialport-perl

Install libdevice-serialport-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 libdevice-serialport-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdevice-serialport-perl

How To Uninstall libdevice-serialport-perl on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libdevice-serialport-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdevice-serialport-perl

Uninstall libdevice-serialport-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libdevice-serialport-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdevice-serialport-perl

Remove libdevice-serialport-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libdevice-serialport-perl configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdevice-serialport-perl

Remove libdevice-serialport-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libdevice-serialport-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdevice-serialport-perl

Dependencies

libdevice-serialport-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• perlapi-5.24.1
• libc6

References

• libdevice-serialport-perl website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdevice-serialport-perl package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.