How To Install libdist-checkconflicts-perl on Debian 12

Learn how to install libdist-checkconflicts-perl on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libdist-checkconflicts-perl is module for declaring version conflicts for a distribution

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdist-checkconflicts-perl on Debian 12.

What is libdist-checkconflicts-perl

libdist-checkconflicts-perl is:

One shortcoming of the CPAN clients that currently exist is that they have no way of specifying conflicting downstream dependencies of modules. Dist::CheckConflicts attempts to work around this issue by allowing you to specify conflicting versions of modules separately, and deal with them after the module is done installing.

For instance, say you have a module Foo, and some other module Bar uses Foo. If Foo were to change its API in a non-backwards-compatible way, this would cause Bar to break until it is updated to use the new API. Foo can’t just depend on the fixed version of Bar, because this will cause a circular dependency (because Bar is already depending on Foo), and this doesn’t express intent properly anyway - Foo doesn’t use Bar at all. The ideal solution would be for there to be a way to specify conflicting versions of modules in a way that would let CPAN clients update conflicting modules automatically after an existing module is upgraded, but until that happens, this module will allow users to do this manually.

There are three methods to install libdist-checkconflicts-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 libdist-checkconflicts-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 libdist-checkconflicts-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libdist-checkconflicts-perl

Install libdist-checkconflicts-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libdist-checkconflicts-perl

Install libdist-checkconflicts-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 libdist-checkconflicts-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdist-checkconflicts-perl

How To Uninstall libdist-checkconflicts-perl on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libdist-checkconflicts-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdist-checkconflicts-perl

Uninstall libdist-checkconflicts-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libdist-checkconflicts-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdist-checkconflicts-perl

Remove libdist-checkconflicts-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libdist-checkconflicts-perl configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdist-checkconflicts-perl

Remove libdist-checkconflicts-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdist-checkconflicts-perl

Dependencies

libdist-checkconflicts-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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