How To Install nettle-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nettle-dbg on Debian 9.
What is nettle-dbg
nettle-dbg is:
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, …), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.
This package contains the debugging symbols for all binary packages.
There are three methods to install nettle-dbg 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 nettle-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nettle-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nettle-dbg
Install nettle-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nettle-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nettle-dbg
Install nettle-dbg 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 nettle-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nettle-dbg
How To Uninstall nettle-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nettle-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nettle-dbg
Uninstall nettle-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nettle-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nettle-dbg
Remove nettle-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove nettle-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nettle-dbg
Remove nettle-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nettle-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nettle-dbg
Dependencies
nettle-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nettle-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.