How To Install libopenraw-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libopenraw-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libopenraw-dev is free implementation for RAW decoding - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenraw-dev on Debian 10.

What is libopenraw-dev

libopenraw-dev is:

libopenraw is an ongoing project to provide a free software implementation for camera RAW files decoding. One of the main reason is that dcraw is not suited for easy integration into applications, and there is a need for an easy to use API to build free software digital image processing application.

It also has the goal to address missing feature from dcraw like meta-data decoding and easy thumbnail extraction.

This package contains development header files.

There are three methods to install libopenraw-dev 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 libopenraw-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libopenraw-dev

Install libopenraw-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libopenraw-dev

Install libopenraw-dev 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 libopenraw-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libopenraw-dev

How To Uninstall libopenraw-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libopenraw-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libopenraw-dev

Uninstall libopenraw-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libopenraw-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenraw-dev

Remove libopenraw-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libopenraw-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libopenraw-dev

Remove libopenraw-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenraw-dev

Dependencies

libopenraw-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenraw-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.