How To Install libgwenhywfar60-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgwenhywfar60-dev on Debian 9. libgwenhywfar60-dev is OS abstraction layer (meta package)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgwenhywfar60-dev on Debian 9.

What is libgwenhywfar60-dev

libgwenhywfar60-dev is:

Gwenhywfar allows porting of your software to different operating systems like Linux, *BSD, Windows etc. It also provides some often needed modules such as configuration file handling, simple XML file parsing, IPC etc.

This package is a meta package that depends on other packages containing all Gwenhywfar development files.

There are three methods to install libgwenhywfar60-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 libgwenhywfar60-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 libgwenhywfar60-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgwenhywfar60-dev

Install libgwenhywfar60-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgwenhywfar60-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgwenhywfar60-dev

Install libgwenhywfar60-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 libgwenhywfar60-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgwenhywfar60-dev

How To Uninstall libgwenhywfar60-dev on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libgwenhywfar60-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgwenhywfar60-dev

Uninstall libgwenhywfar60-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgwenhywfar60-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgwenhywfar60-dev

Remove libgwenhywfar60-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libgwenhywfar60-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgwenhywfar60-dev

Remove libgwenhywfar60-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgwenhywfar60-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgwenhywfar60-dev

Dependencies

libgwenhywfar60-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgwenhywfar60-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.