How To Install libxaw3dxft8-dev on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxaw3dxft8-dev
on Debian 9.
What is libxaw3dxft8-dev
libxaw3dxft8-dev is:
Xaw3dxft is an extended version of Xaw3d, developed as part of xpaint with support for UTF8 input and UTF8 encoding of text, and rendering text with the Freetype library and Truetype fonts.
It should be mostly compatible with the original Xaw3d library, except for font management: everything using the old X11 core font routines should be replaced by their freetype equivalents.
This package contains the development files for libxaw3dxft.
There are three methods to install libxaw3dxft8-dev
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 libxaw3dxft8-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 libxaw3dxft8-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxaw3dxft8-dev
Install libxaw3dxft8-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxaw3dxft8-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxaw3dxft8-dev
Install libxaw3dxft8-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 libxaw3dxft8-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxaw3dxft8-dev
How To Uninstall libxaw3dxft8-dev on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libxaw3dxft8-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxaw3dxft8-dev
Uninstall libxaw3dxft8-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxaw3dxft8-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxaw3dxft8-dev
Remove libxaw3dxft8-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libxaw3dxft8-dev
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxaw3dxft8-dev
Remove libxaw3dxft8-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxaw3dxft8-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxaw3dxft8-dev
Dependencies
libxaw3dxft8-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxaw3dxft8-dev
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.