How To Install liblouis17 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis17 on Debian 10.
What is liblouis17
liblouis17 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).
This package contains shared libraries.
There are three methods to install liblouis17 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblouis17 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouis17 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblouis17
Install liblouis17 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouis17 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblouis17
Install liblouis17 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 liblouis17 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblouis17
How To Uninstall liblouis17 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the liblouis17 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblouis17
Uninstall liblouis17 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblouis17 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblouis17
Remove liblouis17 Configurations and Data
To remove liblouis17 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblouis17
Remove liblouis17 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblouis17 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblouis17
Dependencies
liblouis17 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis17 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.