How To Install libtesseract-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtesseract-dev
on Debian 12.
What is libtesseract-dev
libtesseract-dev is:
Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages. This package includes the development files, static library, and header files.
There are three methods to install libtesseract-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 libtesseract-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 libtesseract-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtesseract-dev
Install libtesseract-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtesseract-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtesseract-dev
Install libtesseract-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 libtesseract-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtesseract-dev
How To Uninstall libtesseract-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libtesseract-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtesseract-dev
Uninstall libtesseract-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtesseract-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtesseract-dev
Remove libtesseract-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libtesseract-dev
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtesseract-dev
Remove libtesseract-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtesseract-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtesseract-dev
Dependencies
libtesseract-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtesseract-dev
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.