How To Install libboxfort-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libboxfort-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libboxfort-dev
libboxfort-dev is:
BoxFort provides a simple API to run user code in isolated processes.
Although BoxFort provides some kind of security of the parent process from spawned sandboxes, a sandbox has by default the same system permissions and access than its parent, and is hence, without care, ill-fitted for security purposes.
The main goal of this project is not security, but portable code isolation – if you want complete system isolation, consider using properly configured containers.
This package contains the header files required to compile a package against BoxFort.
There are three methods to install libboxfort-dev
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 libboxfort-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 libboxfort-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libboxfort-dev
Install libboxfort-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libboxfort-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libboxfort-dev
Install libboxfort-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 libboxfort-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libboxfort-dev
How To Uninstall libboxfort-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libboxfort-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libboxfort-dev
Uninstall libboxfort-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libboxfort-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libboxfort-dev
Remove libboxfort-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libboxfort-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libboxfort-dev
Remove libboxfort-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libboxfort-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libboxfort-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libboxfort-dev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.