How To Install liblouis-bin on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis-bin on Debian 9.
What is liblouis-bin
liblouis-bin is:
Liblouis is a braille translator and back-translator. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg). New languages can easily be added through tables that support a rule- or dictionary based approach. Included are also tools for testing and debugging tables.
This package contains a few tools to test tables and translate text.
There are three methods to install liblouis-bin 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 liblouis-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouis-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblouis-bin
Install liblouis-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouis-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblouis-bin
Install liblouis-bin 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 liblouis-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblouis-bin
How To Uninstall liblouis-bin on Debian 9
To uninstall only the liblouis-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblouis-bin
Uninstall liblouis-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblouis-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblouis-bin
Remove liblouis-bin Configurations and Data
To remove liblouis-bin configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblouis-bin
Remove liblouis-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblouis-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblouis-bin
Dependencies
liblouis-bin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis-bin package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.