How To Install fosfat-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fosfat-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fosfat-dev
fosfat-dev is:
Fosfat is a C library for providing read-only access to a Smaky formatted disk. Currently, only a tool and a FUSE extension that use this library can be used for reading a directory and copying a file.
The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit personal computers and accompanying operating system developed at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), in Switzerland, from 1974.
This package contains the development files for libfosfat0, libfosgra0 and the corresponding documentation.
There are three methods to install fosfat-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fosfat-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fosfat-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fosfat-dev
Install fosfat-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fosfat-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fosfat-dev
Install fosfat-dev 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fosfat-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fosfat-dev
How To Uninstall fosfat-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fosfat-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fosfat-dev
Uninstall fosfat-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fosfat-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fosfat-dev
Remove fosfat-dev Configurations and Data
To remove fosfat-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fosfat-dev
Remove fosfat-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fosfat-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fosfat-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fosfat-dev
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.