How To Install libsynopsis0.12-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsynopsis0.12-dev on Debian 9. libsynopsis0.12-dev is runtime library for Synopsis (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsynopsis0.12-dev on Debian 9.

What is libsynopsis0.12-dev

libsynopsis0.12-dev is:

Synopsis is a multi-language source code introspection tool that provides a variety of representations for the parsed code to enable further processing such as documentation extraction, reverse engineering, and source-to-source translation.

Synopsis provides a framework of C++ and Python APIs to access these representations and allows Processor objects to be defined and composed into processing pipelines, making this framework very flexible and extensible.

This package contains the development files for the Synopsis runtime library.

There are three methods to install libsynopsis0.12-dev on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libsynopsis0.12-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 libsynopsis0.12-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libsynopsis0.12-dev

Install libsynopsis0.12-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libsynopsis0.12-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libsynopsis0.12-dev

Install libsynopsis0.12-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 libsynopsis0.12-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsynopsis0.12-dev

How To Uninstall libsynopsis0.12-dev on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libsynopsis0.12-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsynopsis0.12-dev

Uninstall libsynopsis0.12-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsynopsis0.12-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsynopsis0.12-dev

Remove libsynopsis0.12-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libsynopsis0.12-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsynopsis0.12-dev

Remove libsynopsis0.12-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libsynopsis0.12-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsynopsis0.12-dev

Dependencies

libsynopsis0.12-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsynopsis0.12-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.