How To Install libzim-dev on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libzim-dev
on Debian 9.
What is libzim-dev
libzim-dev is:
ZIM (Zeno IMproved) is an open file format for storing the contents of wiki for offline usage. This file format is primarily focused on providing the contents of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects for offline use.
zimlib is the standard implementation of ZIM specification, which implements the read and write method for ZIM files.
ZIM is a file format created with focus on extracting and encoding data from Mediawiki for offline use.
This package contains development files.
There are three methods to install libzim-dev
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 libzim-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 libzim-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libzim-dev
Install libzim-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libzim-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libzim-dev
Install libzim-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 libzim-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libzim-dev
How To Uninstall libzim-dev on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libzim-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libzim-dev
Uninstall libzim-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libzim-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libzim-dev
Remove libzim-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libzim-dev
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libzim-dev
Remove libzim-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libzim-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libzim-dev
Dependencies
libzim-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libzim-dev
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.