How To Install libportaudio-ocaml on Debian 11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libportaudio-ocaml on Debian 11.

What is libportaudio-ocaml

libportaudio-ocaml is:

Portaudio is a portable audio I/O library designed for cross-platform support of audio. This package provides OCaml interface to this library.

This package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.

There are three methods to install libportaudio-ocaml on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libportaudio-ocaml Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libportaudio-ocaml

Install libportaudio-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libportaudio-ocaml

Install libportaudio-ocaml 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 libportaudio-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libportaudio-ocaml

How To Uninstall libportaudio-ocaml on Debian 11

To uninstall only the libportaudio-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libportaudio-ocaml

Uninstall libportaudio-ocaml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libportaudio-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libportaudio-ocaml

Remove libportaudio-ocaml Configurations and Data

To remove libportaudio-ocaml configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libportaudio-ocaml

Remove libportaudio-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libportaudio-ocaml

Dependencies

libportaudio-ocaml have the following dependencies:

• ocaml-base-nox-4.11.1
• libc6
• libportaudio2

References

• libportaudio-ocaml website
• libportaudio-ocaml on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libportaudio-ocaml package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.