How To Install liborcus-bin on Debian 12

Learn how to install liborcus-bin on Debian 12 with this tutorial. liborcus-bin is library for processing spreadsheet documents - binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liborcus-bin on Debian 12.

What is liborcus-bin

liborcus-bin is:

Orcus is a library that provides a collection of standalone file processing filters. It is currently focused on providing filters for spreadsheet documents, but filters for other productivity application types (such as wordprocessor and presentation) are in consideration.

The library currently includes filters for xlsx, ods, csv, and generic XML formats.

This package contains the command-line applications for converting documents.

There are three methods to install liborcus-bin 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 liborcus-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liborcus-bin

Install liborcus-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liborcus-bin

Install liborcus-bin 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 liborcus-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liborcus-bin

How To Uninstall liborcus-bin on Debian 12

To uninstall only the liborcus-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liborcus-bin

Uninstall liborcus-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liborcus-bin

Remove liborcus-bin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge liborcus-bin

Remove liborcus-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liborcus-bin

Dependencies

liborcus-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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