How To Install libportaudio-ocaml-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libportaudio-ocaml-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libportaudio-ocaml-dev is OCaml bindings for the portaudio library

Introduction

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

What is libportaudio-ocaml-dev

libportaudio-ocaml-dev 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 all the development stuff you need to develop OCaml programs which use portaudio.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libportaudio-ocaml-dev

Install libportaudio-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libportaudio-ocaml-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libportaudio-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libportaudio-ocaml-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libportaudio-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libportaudio-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove libportaudio-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

libportaudio-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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