How To Install opendbx-utils on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opendbx-utils on Debian 9.

What is opendbx-utils

opendbx-utils is:

OpenDBX provides a simple and lightweight API for interfacing native relational database APIs in a consistent way. By using the OpenDBX API you don’t have to adapt your program to the different database APIs by yourself.

This package provides the odbx-sql utility application for accessing database content directly via libopendbx and the opendbx test suite for verifying that various backends are working

There are three methods to install opendbx-utils 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 opendbx-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install opendbx-utils

Install opendbx-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install opendbx-utils

Install opendbx-utils 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 opendbx-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install opendbx-utils

How To Uninstall opendbx-utils on Debian 9

To uninstall only the opendbx-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove opendbx-utils

Uninstall opendbx-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove opendbx-utils

Remove opendbx-utils Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge opendbx-utils

Remove opendbx-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opendbx-utils

Dependencies

opendbx-utils have the following dependencies:

• libopendbx1
• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• opendbx-utils website

Summary

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