How To Install libxmlb-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libxmlb-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libxmlb-dev is development files for libxmlb

Introduction

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

What is libxmlb-dev

libxmlb-dev is:

This package provides development libraryes for libxmlb.

The libxmlb library takes XML source, and converts it to a structured binary representation with a deduplicated string table – where the strings have the NULs included.

This allows an application to mmap the binary XML file, do an XPath query and return some strings without actually parsing the entire document. This is all done using (almost) zero allocations and no actual copying of the binary data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxmlb-dev

Install libxmlb-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libxmlb-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libxmlb-dev

How To Uninstall libxmlb-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libxmlb-dev

Uninstall libxmlb-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxmlb-dev

Remove libxmlb-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libxmlb-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libxmlb-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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