How To Install shr-specs on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install shr-specs on Debian 9. shr-specs is SHR DBus XML specification & documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install shr-specs on Debian 9.

What is shr-specs

shr-specs is:

The Desktop-Bus prepares applications to communicate with another by the sending of predefined signals. The process is agnostic about programming languages, but the collaborating tools need to agree on a common set of signals and their interpretation.

This package provides the DBus specifications of the SHR software stack, which sits on top of the freesmartphone.org software stack.

Process these with a DBus binding generator to create stubs for your program.

There are three methods to install shr-specs 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 shr-specs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install shr-specs

Install shr-specs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install shr-specs

Install shr-specs 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 shr-specs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install shr-specs

How To Uninstall shr-specs on Debian 9

To uninstall only the shr-specs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove shr-specs

Uninstall shr-specs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove shr-specs

Remove shr-specs Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge shr-specs

Remove shr-specs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shr-specs

Dependencies

shr-specs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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