How To Install libmtp-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmtp-doc
on Debian 9.
What is libmtp-doc
libmtp-doc is:
libmtp is a library for communicating with MTP aware devices in POSIX compliant operating systems. It implements MTP Basic, the subset proposed for standardization.
The Media Transfer Protocol (commonly referred to as MTP) is a devised set of custom extensions to support the transfer of music files on USB digital audio players and movie files on USB portable media players.
This package contains the development documentation.
There are three methods to install libmtp-doc
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 libmtp-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmtp-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmtp-doc
Install libmtp-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmtp-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmtp-doc
Install libmtp-doc 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 libmtp-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmtp-doc
How To Uninstall libmtp-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libmtp-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmtp-doc
Uninstall libmtp-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmtp-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmtp-doc
Remove libmtp-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libmtp-doc
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmtp-doc
Remove libmtp-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmtp-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmtp-doc
Dependencies
libmtp-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmtp-doc
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.