How To Install libindi-plugins on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libindi-plugins
on Debian 9.
What is libindi-plugins
libindi-plugins is:
INDI (Instrument-Neutral Device Interface) is a distributed XML-based control protocol designed to operate astronomical instrumentation. INDI is small, flexible, easy to parse, scalable, and stateless. It supports common DCS functions such as remote control, data acquisition, monitoring, and a lot more.
This package contains binary plugins.
There are three methods to install libindi-plugins
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 libindi-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libindi-plugins
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libindi-plugins
Install libindi-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libindi-plugins
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libindi-plugins
Install libindi-plugins 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 libindi-plugins
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libindi-plugins
How To Uninstall libindi-plugins on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libindi-plugins
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libindi-plugins
Uninstall libindi-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libindi-plugins
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libindi-plugins
Remove libindi-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove libindi-plugins
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libindi-plugins
Remove libindi-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libindi-plugins
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libindi-plugins
Dependencies
libindi-plugins have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libindi-plugins
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.