How To Install libxft2-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxft2-dbg on Debian 9.
What is libxft2-dbg
libxft2-dbg is:
Xft provides a client-side font API for X applications, making the FreeType font rasterizer available to X clients. Fontconfig is used for font specification resolution. Where available, the RENDER extension handles glyph drawing; otherwise, the core X protocol is used.
This package provides an unstripped shared object with debugging symbols, useful to provide a backtrace with symbol names in a debugger; this facilitates interpretation of core dumps, and aids in finding logic errors in programs using this library (or the library itself). The library is installed in /usr/lib/debug and can be used by placing that directory in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable when the code to be debugged is executed. Non-programmers will likely have little use for this package, and should use libxft2 instead.
There are three methods to install libxft2-dbg 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 libxft2-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 libxft2-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxft2-dbg
Install libxft2-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxft2-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxft2-dbg
Install libxft2-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 libxft2-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxft2-dbg
How To Uninstall libxft2-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libxft2-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxft2-dbg
Uninstall libxft2-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxft2-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxft2-dbg
Remove libxft2-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libxft2-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxft2-dbg
Remove libxft2-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxft2-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxft2-dbg
Dependencies
libxft2-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxft2-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.