How To Install libgdata-dev on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdata-dev
on Debian 9.
What is libgdata-dev
libgdata-dev is:
libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using the GData protocol ?? most notably, Google’s services. It provides APIs to access the common Google services, and has full asynchronous support.
This package contains the headers and development libraries needed to build applications using the libgdata library
There are three methods to install libgdata-dev
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 libgdata-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 libgdata-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgdata-dev
Install libgdata-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgdata-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgdata-dev
Install libgdata-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 libgdata-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgdata-dev
How To Uninstall libgdata-dev on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libgdata-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgdata-dev
Uninstall libgdata-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgdata-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgdata-dev
Remove libgdata-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libgdata-dev
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgdata-dev
Remove libgdata-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgdata-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgdata-dev
Dependencies
libgdata-dev have the following dependencies:
- libgdata22
- gir1.2-gdata-0.0
- libgcr-3-dev
- libglib2.0-dev
- libgoa-1.0-dev
- libjson-glib-dev
- liboauth-dev
- libsoup2.4-dev
- libxml2-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdata-dev
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.