How To Install libwine-development on Debian 10

Learn how to install libwine-development on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libwine-development is Windows API implementation - library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwine-development on Debian 10.

What is libwine-development

libwine-development is:

Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.

This package provides the Wine library.

There are three methods to install libwine-development on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libwine-development Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libwine-development using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libwine-development

Install libwine-development Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libwine-development

Install libwine-development 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 libwine-development using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libwine-development

How To Uninstall libwine-development on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libwine-development package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libwine-development

Uninstall libwine-development And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libwine-development and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwine-development

Remove libwine-development Configurations and Data

To remove libwine-development configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libwine-development

Remove libwine-development configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwine-development

Dependencies

libwine-development have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwine-development package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.