How To Install spirv-tools on Debian 12

Learn how to install spirv-tools on Debian 12 with this tutorial. spirv-tools is API and commands for processing SPIR-V modules

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spirv-tools on Debian 12.

What is spirv-tools

spirv-tools is:

The project includes an assembler, binary module parser, disassembler, validator, and optimizer for SPIR-V. Except for the optimizer, all are based on a common static library. The library contains all of the implementation details, and is used in the standalone tools whilst also enabling integration into other code bases directly. The optimizer implementation resides in its own library, which depends on the core library.

There are three methods to install spirv-tools 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 spirv-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install spirv-tools

Install spirv-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install spirv-tools

Install spirv-tools 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 spirv-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spirv-tools

How To Uninstall spirv-tools on Debian 12

To uninstall only the spirv-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spirv-tools

Uninstall spirv-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall spirv-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spirv-tools

Remove spirv-tools Configurations and Data

To remove spirv-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spirv-tools

Remove spirv-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spirv-tools

Dependencies

spirv-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spirv-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.