How To Install libprotobuf-c1 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotobuf-c1 on Debian 10.
What is libprotobuf-c1
libprotobuf-c1 is:
Protocol Buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data - similar to XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the “old” format.
This is the “protobuf-c” implementation of Protocol Buffers in C.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libprotobuf-c1 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 libprotobuf-c1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libprotobuf-c1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprotobuf-c1
Install libprotobuf-c1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprotobuf-c1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprotobuf-c1
Install libprotobuf-c1 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 libprotobuf-c1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprotobuf-c1
How To Uninstall libprotobuf-c1 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libprotobuf-c1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprotobuf-c1
Uninstall libprotobuf-c1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprotobuf-c1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprotobuf-c1
Remove libprotobuf-c1 Configurations and Data
To remove libprotobuf-c1 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprotobuf-c1
Remove libprotobuf-c1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprotobuf-c1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprotobuf-c1
Dependencies
libprotobuf-c1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotobuf-c1 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
