How To Install liboidc-agent4 on Debian 12

Learn how to install liboidc-agent4 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. liboidc-agent4 is oidc-agent library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboidc-agent4 on Debian 12.

What is liboidc-agent4

liboidc-agent4 is:

oidc-agent is a commandline tool for obtaining OpenID Connect Access tokens on the commandline.

This package provides a library for easy communication with oidc-agent. Applications can use this library to request access token from oidc-agent.

There are three methods to install liboidc-agent4 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 liboidc-agent4 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liboidc-agent4 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboidc-agent4

Install liboidc-agent4 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboidc-agent4 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboidc-agent4

Install liboidc-agent4 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 liboidc-agent4 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboidc-agent4

How To Uninstall liboidc-agent4 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the liboidc-agent4 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboidc-agent4

Uninstall liboidc-agent4 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboidc-agent4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboidc-agent4

Remove liboidc-agent4 Configurations and Data

To remove liboidc-agent4 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboidc-agent4

Remove liboidc-agent4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboidc-agent4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboidc-agent4

Dependencies

liboidc-agent4 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboidc-agent4 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.