How To Install tclodbc on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tclodbc
on Debian 12.
What is tclodbc
tclodbc is:
This package is the ODBC extension for Tcl, originally written by Roy Nurmi, Tom Poindexter and Rob Saboye. Provides access to Databases through ODBC connections.
Browse the documentation under /usr/share/doc/tclodbc/reference.htm to learn more on how to use the extension.
There are three methods to install tclodbc
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 tclodbc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tclodbc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tclodbc
Install tclodbc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tclodbc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tclodbc
Install tclodbc 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 tclodbc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tclodbc
How To Uninstall tclodbc on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tclodbc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tclodbc
Uninstall tclodbc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tclodbc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tclodbc
Remove tclodbc Configurations and Data
To remove tclodbc
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tclodbc
Remove tclodbc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tclodbc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tclodbc
Dependencies
tclodbc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tclodbc
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.