How To Install freeaptx-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeaptx-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is freeaptx-utils
freeaptx-utils is:
libfreeaptx is based on version 0.2.0 of libopenaptx with the intent of continuing under a free license without the additional license restriction added to libopenaptx 0.2.1.
This package contains utility tools such as freeaptxdec and freeaptxenc.
There are three methods to install freeaptx-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install freeaptx-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freeaptx-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freeaptx-utils
Install freeaptx-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freeaptx-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freeaptx-utils
Install freeaptx-utils 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 freeaptx-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freeaptx-utils
How To Uninstall freeaptx-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the freeaptx-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freeaptx-utils
Uninstall freeaptx-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeaptx-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freeaptx-utils
Remove freeaptx-utils Configurations and Data
To remove freeaptx-utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freeaptx-utils
Remove freeaptx-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeaptx-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freeaptx-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeaptx-utils
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.