How To Install maliit-framework-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maliit-framework-dev on Debian 12.
What is maliit-framework-dev
maliit-framework-dev is:
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via input context plugins. The communication link currently uses D-Bus. Maliit is an open source framework (LGPL 2) with open source plugins (BSD).
This package is needed to compile plugins for the Maliit framework
There are three methods to install maliit-framework-dev 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 maliit-framework-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 maliit-framework-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install maliit-framework-dev
Install maliit-framework-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install maliit-framework-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install maliit-framework-dev
Install maliit-framework-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 maliit-framework-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install maliit-framework-dev
How To Uninstall maliit-framework-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the maliit-framework-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove maliit-framework-dev
Uninstall maliit-framework-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall maliit-framework-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove maliit-framework-dev
Remove maliit-framework-dev Configurations and Data
To remove maliit-framework-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge maliit-framework-dev
Remove maliit-framework-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove maliit-framework-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maliit-framework-dev
Dependencies
maliit-framework-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maliit-framework-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
