How To Install libmaliit-glib2 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libmaliit-glib2 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libmaliit-glib2 is Maliit Input Method Framework - GLib Bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmaliit-glib2 on Debian 12.

What is libmaliit-glib2

libmaliit-glib2 is:

Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via input context plugins. The communication link currently uses D-Bus. Maliit is an open source framework (LGPL 2) with open source plugins (BSD).

This package provides GLib bindings for the Maliit framework.

There are three methods to install libmaliit-glib2 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 libmaliit-glib2 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmaliit-glib2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmaliit-glib2

Install libmaliit-glib2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmaliit-glib2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmaliit-glib2

Install libmaliit-glib2 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 libmaliit-glib2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmaliit-glib2

How To Uninstall libmaliit-glib2 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libmaliit-glib2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmaliit-glib2

Uninstall libmaliit-glib2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmaliit-glib2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmaliit-glib2

Remove libmaliit-glib2 Configurations and Data

To remove libmaliit-glib2 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmaliit-glib2

Remove libmaliit-glib2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmaliit-glib2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmaliit-glib2

Dependencies

libmaliit-glib2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmaliit-glib2 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.