How To Install liblightdm-gobject-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install liblightdm-gobject-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. liblightdm-gobject-dev is simple display manager (GObject development files)

Introduction

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

What is liblightdm-gobject-dev

liblightdm-gobject-dev is:

This package contains the development files for lightdm. They can be used to build new greeters applications GTK+ based.

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblightdm-gobject-dev

Install liblightdm-gobject-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblightdm-gobject-dev

Install liblightdm-gobject-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 liblightdm-gobject-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblightdm-gobject-dev

How To Uninstall liblightdm-gobject-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove liblightdm-gobject-dev

Uninstall liblightdm-gobject-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblightdm-gobject-dev

Remove liblightdm-gobject-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge liblightdm-gobject-dev

Remove liblightdm-gobject-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblightdm-gobject-dev

Dependencies

liblightdm-gobject-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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