How To Install liwc on Debian 12

Learn how to install liwc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. liwc is Tools for manipulating C source code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liwc on Debian 12.

What is liwc

liwc is:

Includes programs for converting C++ comments to C comments, removing C comments, print out string literals, and converting characters to trigraphs and trigraphs to characters.

There are three methods to install liwc on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liwc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liwc

Install liwc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liwc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liwc

Install liwc 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 liwc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liwc

How To Uninstall liwc on Debian 12

To uninstall only the liwc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liwc

Uninstall liwc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liwc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liwc

Remove liwc Configurations and Data

To remove liwc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liwc

Remove liwc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liwc

Dependencies

liwc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liwc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.