How To Install libxcb-imdkit-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxcb-imdkit-dev
on Debian 11.
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 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 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 11
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 11, 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 11 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 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.