How To Install libgavl-ocaml on Debian 10

Learn how to install libgavl-ocaml on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libgavl-ocaml is OCaml interface to the gavl library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl-ocaml on Debian 10.

What is libgavl-ocaml

libgavl-ocaml is:

This package provides an interface to the gavl library for OCaml programmers.

Gavl handles all the details of audio and video formats like colorspaces, samplerates, multichannel configurations etc. It provides standardized definitions for those formats as well as container structures for carrying audio samples or video images inside an application.

This package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.

There are three methods to install libgavl-ocaml on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libgavl-ocaml Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libgavl-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgavl-ocaml

Install libgavl-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libgavl-ocaml

Install libgavl-ocaml 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 libgavl-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgavl-ocaml

How To Uninstall libgavl-ocaml on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libgavl-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgavl-ocaml

Uninstall libgavl-ocaml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgavl-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgavl-ocaml

Remove libgavl-ocaml Configurations and Data

To remove libgavl-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgavl-ocaml

Remove libgavl-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgavl-ocaml

Dependencies

libgavl-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl-ocaml package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.