How To Install yotta on Debian 12

Learn how to install yotta on Debian 12 with this tutorial. yotta is build tool for C/C++ projects using modular components

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yotta on Debian 12.

What is yotta

yotta is:

yotta is a build tool to make it easier to build better C/C++ software by re-using modules. Modules can be published to the yotta registry to share with other people, or can be re-used privately in your own projects.

Whenever a project is built with yotta, a yotta build target is selected. Targets describe the platform that you’re building for (such as an embedded IoT development board, or natively for Linux), and provide all the information that yotta and the modules you’re using need to configure themselves correctly for that platform.

This package provides the yotta build system for Python 3.

There are three methods to install yotta 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 yotta Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yotta

Install yotta Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install yotta using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install yotta

Install yotta 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 yotta using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yotta

How To Uninstall yotta on Debian 12

To uninstall only the yotta package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yotta

Uninstall yotta And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yotta

Remove yotta Configurations and Data

To remove yotta configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yotta

Remove yotta configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yotta

Dependencies

yotta have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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