How To Install m17n-db on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-db on Debian 9.

What is m17n-db

m17n-db is:

The m17n library is a multilingual text processing library for the C language. This library has following features:

• The m17n library is an open source software.
• The m17n library for any Linux/Unix applications.
• The m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of applications.
• The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text. M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any information required to input, display and edit the text.
• The m17n library supports functions to handle M-texts.

m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.

This package contains the database files used by m17n-lib.

There are three methods to install m17n-db 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 m17n-db Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install m17n-db using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install m17n-db

Install m17n-db Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install m17n-db using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install m17n-db

Install m17n-db 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 m17n-db using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install m17n-db

How To Uninstall m17n-db on Debian 9

To uninstall only the m17n-db package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove m17n-db

Uninstall m17n-db And Its Dependencies

To uninstall m17n-db and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove m17n-db

Remove m17n-db Configurations and Data

To remove m17n-db configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge m17n-db

Remove m17n-db configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove m17n-db configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge m17n-db

Dependencies

m17n-db have the following dependencies:

References

• m17n-db website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-db package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.