How To Install generate-ninja on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install generate-ninja
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is generate-ninja
generate-ninja is:
Generate-Ninja, or GN, is a meta-build system that generates Ninja build files so that you can build your project with Ninja. GN was, originally, part of the Chromium source tree, and has since been extracted into its own standalone repo.
There are three methods to install generate-ninja
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 generate-ninja Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install generate-ninja
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install generate-ninja
Install generate-ninja Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install generate-ninja
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install generate-ninja
Install generate-ninja 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 generate-ninja
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install generate-ninja
How To Uninstall generate-ninja on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the generate-ninja
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove generate-ninja
Uninstall generate-ninja And Its Dependencies
To uninstall generate-ninja
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove generate-ninja
Remove generate-ninja Configurations and Data
To remove generate-ninja
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge generate-ninja
Remove generate-ninja configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove generate-ninja
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge generate-ninja
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install generate-ninja
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.