How To Install liblnk-utils on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblnk-utils
on Debian 9.
What is liblnk-utils
liblnk-utils is:
liblnk is a library to access the Windows Shortcut File (LNK) format.
This package contains lnkinfo, a tool to determine information about a Windows Shortcut File.
There are three methods to install liblnk-utils
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 liblnk-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblnk-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblnk-utils
Install liblnk-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblnk-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblnk-utils
Install liblnk-utils 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 liblnk-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblnk-utils
How To Uninstall liblnk-utils on Debian 9
To uninstall only the liblnk-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblnk-utils
Uninstall liblnk-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblnk-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblnk-utils
Remove liblnk-utils Configurations and Data
To remove liblnk-utils
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblnk-utils
Remove liblnk-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblnk-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblnk-utils
Dependencies
liblnk-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblnk-utils
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.