How To Install libpcp-web1-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libpcp-web1-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libpcp-web1-dev is Performance Co-Pilot web tooling

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcp-web1-dev on Debian 10.

What is libpcp-web1-dev

libpcp-web1-dev is:

The libpcp-web-dev package contains the library and header files needed to build a PMDA which parses and extracts metric data from a JSON file.

The Performance Co-Pilot provides a unifying abstraction for all of the interesting performance data in a system, and allows client applications to easily retrieve and process any subset of that data.

There are three methods to install libpcp-web1-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 libpcp-web1-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 libpcp-web1-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libpcp-web1-dev

Install libpcp-web1-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libpcp-web1-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libpcp-web1-dev

Install libpcp-web1-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 libpcp-web1-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libpcp-web1-dev

How To Uninstall libpcp-web1-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libpcp-web1-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libpcp-web1-dev

Uninstall libpcp-web1-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libpcp-web1-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpcp-web1-dev

Remove libpcp-web1-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libpcp-web1-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libpcp-web1-dev

Remove libpcp-web1-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libpcp-web1-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpcp-web1-dev

Dependencies

libpcp-web1-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcp-web1-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.