How To Install skalibs-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install skalibs-dev on Debian 11.
What is skalibs-dev
skalibs-dev is:
skalibs is a package centralizing the free software / open source C development files used for building all software at skarnet.org: it contains essentially general-purpose libraries. You will need to install skalibs if you plan to build skarnet.org software. The point is that you won’t have to download and compile big libraries, and care about portability issues, every time you need to build a package: do it only once.
skalibs can also be used as a sound basic start for C development. There are a lot of general-purpose libraries out there; but if your main goal is to produce small and secure C code with a focus on system programming, skalibs might be for you.
This package contains static and header files.
There are three methods to install skalibs-dev on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install skalibs-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 skalibs-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install skalibs-dev
Install skalibs-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install skalibs-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install skalibs-dev
Install skalibs-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 skalibs-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skalibs-dev
How To Uninstall skalibs-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the skalibs-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove skalibs-dev
Uninstall skalibs-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall skalibs-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skalibs-dev
Remove skalibs-dev Configurations and Data
To remove skalibs-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge skalibs-dev
Remove skalibs-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove skalibs-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skalibs-dev
Dependencies
skalibs-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skalibs-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.