How To Install libdlib-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdlib-dev on Debian 11.
What is libdlib-dev
libdlib-dev is:
Dlib is a general purpose cross-platform open source software library written in the C++ programming language. It now contains software components for dealing with networking, threads, graphical interfaces, complex data structures, linear algebra, statistical machine learning, image processing, data mining, XML and text parsing, numerical optimization, Bayesian networks, and numerous other tasks.
This package contains the development headers.
There are three methods to install libdlib-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 libdlib-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 libdlib-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdlib-dev
Install libdlib-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdlib-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdlib-dev
Install libdlib-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 libdlib-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdlib-dev
How To Uninstall libdlib-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libdlib-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdlib-dev
Uninstall libdlib-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdlib-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdlib-dev
Remove libdlib-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libdlib-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdlib-dev
Remove libdlib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdlib-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdlib-dev
Dependencies
libdlib-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdlib-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.