How To Install libxcb-imdkit-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libxcb-imdkit-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libxcb-imdkit-dev is XIM protocol implementation in XCB (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxcb-imdkit-dev on Debian 10.

What is libxcb-imdkit-dev

libxcb-imdkit-dev is:

xcb-imdkit is an implementation of XIM protocol in XCB. Comparing with the implementation of IMDkit with Xlib and xim inside Xlib, it has less memory foot print, better performance and safer on malformed client.

It doesn’t have complete protocol support though since some part of the protocol is never used.

This package provides development files of xcb-imdkit.

There are three methods to install libxcb-imdkit-dev 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 libxcb-imdkit-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 libxcb-imdkit-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libxcb-imdkit-dev

Install libxcb-imdkit-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libxcb-imdkit-dev

Install libxcb-imdkit-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 libxcb-imdkit-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxcb-imdkit-dev

How To Uninstall libxcb-imdkit-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libxcb-imdkit-dev

Uninstall libxcb-imdkit-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxcb-imdkit-dev

Remove libxcb-imdkit-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libxcb-imdkit-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxcb-imdkit-dev

Remove libxcb-imdkit-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxcb-imdkit-dev

Dependencies

libxcb-imdkit-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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