How To Install libview2-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libview2-dbg on Debian 9.
What is libview2-dbg
libview2-dbg is:
libview is VMware’s Incredibly Exciting Widgets, a useful collection of GTK+ widgets used within VMware products, free for everybody’s use.
This library consists of several widgets that are used by VMware in Workstation and other products and has been given back to the OSS community. These widgets are under the MIT license and are largely written in C++ for GTKMM.
This is the debugging package.
There are three methods to install libview2-dbg 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 libview2-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libview2-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libview2-dbg
Install libview2-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libview2-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libview2-dbg
Install libview2-dbg 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 libview2-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libview2-dbg
How To Uninstall libview2-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libview2-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libview2-dbg
Uninstall libview2-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libview2-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libview2-dbg
Remove libview2-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libview2-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libview2-dbg
Remove libview2-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libview2-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libview2-dbg
Dependencies
libview2-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libview2-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.