How To Install libxaw7-dbg on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxaw7-dbg on Debian 11.
What is libxaw7-dbg
libxaw7-dbg is:
libXaw7 provides the second version of Xaw, the Athena Widgets toolkit, which is largely used by legacy X applications. This version is the most common version, as version 6 is considered deprecated, and version 8, which adds Xprint support, is unsupported and not widely used. In general, use of a more modern toolkit such as GTK+ is recommended.
This package contains the debug versions of the library found in libxaw7. Non-developers likely have little use for this package.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:http://www.X.org
This module can be found at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libXaw
There are three methods to install libxaw7-dbg on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libxaw7-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 libxaw7-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxaw7-dbg
Install libxaw7-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxaw7-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxaw7-dbg
Install libxaw7-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 libxaw7-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxaw7-dbg
How To Uninstall libxaw7-dbg on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libxaw7-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxaw7-dbg
Uninstall libxaw7-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxaw7-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxaw7-dbg
Remove libxaw7-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libxaw7-dbg configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxaw7-dbg
Remove libxaw7-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxaw7-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxaw7-dbg
Dependencies
libxaw7-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxaw7-dbg package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.