How To Install libenca-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libenca-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libenca-dev is Extremely Naive Charset Analyser - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libenca-dev on Debian 12.

What is libenca-dev

libenca-dev is:

Enca is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects the character set and the encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings.

This package contains header files needed for development with libenca. It also contains API documentation.

There are three methods to install libenca-dev 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 libenca-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 libenca-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libenca-dev

Install libenca-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libenca-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libenca-dev

Install libenca-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 libenca-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libenca-dev

How To Uninstall libenca-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libenca-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libenca-dev

Uninstall libenca-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libenca-dev

Remove libenca-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libenca-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libenca-dev

Remove libenca-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libenca-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libenca-dev

Dependencies

libenca-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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