How To Install libspeex-ocaml on Debian 12

Learn how to install libspeex-ocaml on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libspeex-ocaml is OCaml interface to the speex library

Introduction

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

What is libspeex-ocaml

libspeex-ocaml is:

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

Speex is an audio codec especially designed for compressing voice at low bit-rates for applications such as voice over IP (VoIP).

This package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libspeex-ocaml

Install libspeex-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libspeex-ocaml

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

sudo aptitude -y install libspeex-ocaml

How To Uninstall libspeex-ocaml on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libspeex-ocaml

Uninstall libspeex-ocaml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspeex-ocaml

Remove libspeex-ocaml Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libspeex-ocaml

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

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

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

Dependencies

libspeex-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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