How To Install libshine-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libshine-ocaml-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libshine-ocaml-dev is OCaml interface to the shine library – development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libshine-ocaml-dev on Debian 12.

What is libshine-ocaml-dev

libshine-ocaml-dev is:

This package provides an interface to the shine library for OCaml programmers.

Shine can be used to encode MP3 audio data on architectures with no floating point processing unit (FPU) at a much better rate than encoding libraries implemented using floating-point arithmetic.

This package contains all the development stuff you need to develop OCaml programs which use ocaml-shine.

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

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

Install libshine-ocaml-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libshine-ocaml-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libshine-ocaml-dev

How To Uninstall libshine-ocaml-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libshine-ocaml-dev

Uninstall libshine-ocaml-dev And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove libshine-ocaml-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libshine-ocaml-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

libshine-ocaml-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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