How To Install libupower-glib-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libupower-glib-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libupower-glib-dev is abstraction for power management - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libupower-glib-dev on Debian 12.

What is libupower-glib-dev

libupower-glib-dev is:

upower provides an interface to enumerate power sources on the system and control system-wide power management. Any application can access the org.freedesktop.UPower service on the system message bus. Some operations (such as suspending the system) are restricted using PolicyKit.

This package contains files that are needed to build applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libupower-glib-dev

Install libupower-glib-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libupower-glib-dev

Install libupower-glib-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 libupower-glib-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libupower-glib-dev

How To Uninstall libupower-glib-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libupower-glib-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libupower-glib-dev

Uninstall libupower-glib-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libupower-glib-dev

Remove libupower-glib-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libupower-glib-dev

Remove libupower-glib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libupower-glib-dev

Dependencies

libupower-glib-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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