How To Install libeet-bin on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libeet-bin on Debian 9.
What is libeet-bin
libeet-bin is:
Eet is a tiny library designed to write an arbitrary set of chunks of data to a file and optionally compress each chunk (very much like a zip file) and allows fast random-access reading of the file later on. It does not do zip as zip itself has more complexity than needed, and it was much simpler to implement this once here.
This package contains eet, an utility that allows you to extract, insert, encode and decode config blobs created with libeet.
There are three methods to install libeet-bin 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 libeet-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libeet-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libeet-bin
Install libeet-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libeet-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libeet-bin
Install libeet-bin 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 libeet-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libeet-bin
How To Uninstall libeet-bin on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libeet-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libeet-bin
Uninstall libeet-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libeet-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libeet-bin
Remove libeet-bin Configurations and Data
To remove libeet-bin configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libeet-bin
Remove libeet-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libeet-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libeet-bin
Dependencies
libeet-bin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libeet-bin package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.