How To Install libvalijson-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libvalijson-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libvalijson-dev is Header-only C++ library for JSON Schema validation

Introduction

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

What is libvalijson-dev

libvalijson-dev is:

Valijson is a header-only JSON Schema validation library for C++11.

Valijson provides a simple validation API that allows you to load JSON Schemas, and validate documents loaded by one of several supported parser libraries.

The goal of this project is to support validation of all constraints available in JSON Schema v7, while being competitive with the performance of a hand-written schema validator.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvalijson-dev

Install libvalijson-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libvalijson-dev

Install libvalijson-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 libvalijson-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvalijson-dev

How To Uninstall libvalijson-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libvalijson-dev

Uninstall libvalijson-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvalijson-dev

Remove libvalijson-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libvalijson-dev

Remove libvalijson-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvalijson-dev

Dependencies

libvalijson-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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