How To Install libxaw7-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libxaw7-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libxaw7-dev is X11 Athena Widget library (development headers)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxaw7-dev on Debian 12.

What is libxaw7-dev

libxaw7-dev 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 development headers for 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-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 libxaw7-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 libxaw7-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libxaw7-dev

Install libxaw7-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libxaw7-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libxaw7-dev

Install libxaw7-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 libxaw7-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxaw7-dev

How To Uninstall libxaw7-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libxaw7-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libxaw7-dev

Uninstall libxaw7-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libxaw7-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxaw7-dev

Remove libxaw7-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libxaw7-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxaw7-dev

Remove libxaw7-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libxaw7-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxaw7-dev

Dependencies

libxaw7-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxaw7-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.