How To Install emconfigure on Debian 11

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install emscripten

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is emconfigure and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Debian 11. This guide was written specifically with a server running Debian 11 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install emconfigure on Debian 11. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install emconfigure using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt -y install emscripten

Install emconfigure using apt

Because emconfigure is available in Debian 11’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install emconfigure using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install emscripten

Install emconfigure 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 11. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install emconfigure by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install emscripten

How to upgrade (update) a single package emconfigure using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the emconfigure, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install emscripten

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install emscripten

How To Uninstall emconfigure from Debian 11

To uninstall only the emconfigure package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove emscripten

Uninstall emconfigure and all its dependencies

To uninstall emconfigure and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove emscripten

Remove emconfigure with all configurations and data

To remove emconfigure configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge emscripten

Remove emconfigure completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to emconfigure package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emscripten

Extra info and code examples

Emscripten is an LLVM to JavaScript compiler. It takes LLVM bitcode, also called LLVM IR (which can be generated from C/C++ using Clang, or any other language that can be converted into LLVM bitcode) and compiles that into JavaScript, which can be run on the web (or anywhere else JavaScript can run). Using Emscripten, you can * Compile C and C++ code into JavaScript and run that on the web * Run code in languages like Python as well, by compiling CPython from C to JavaScript and interpreting code in that on the web

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install emconfigure using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the emconfigure from Debian 11.

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