How To Install swig on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swig on Debian 10.
What is swig
swig is:
SWIG is a compiler that makes it easy to integrate C and C++ code with other languages including Perl, Tcl, Ruby, Python, Java, Guile, Mzscheme, Chicken, OCaml, Pike, and C#.
Swig takes a set of ANSI C/C++ declarations and generates an interface for them to your favorite scripting language.
This is a dependency package providing the stable version of SWIG.
There are three methods to install swig on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install swig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swig using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swig
Install swig Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swig using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swig
Install swig 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 swig using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swig
How To Uninstall swig on Debian 10
To uninstall only the swig package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swig
Uninstall swig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swig and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swig
Remove swig Configurations and Data
To remove swig configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swig
Remove swig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swig configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swig
Dependencies
swig have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swig package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.