How To Install libcurl4-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurl4-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcurl4-doc
libcurl4-doc is:
libcurl is an easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP.
libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!
libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.
This package provides the documentation files for libcurl.
Package: libcurl4-doc Architecture: all Version: 7.68.0-1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: doc Source: curl Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Alessandro Ghedini [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1822 Breaks: libcurl4-gnutls-dev (« 7.30.0-2), libcurl4-nss-dev (« 7.30.0-2), libcurl4-openssl-dev (« 7.30.0-2) Replaces: libcurl4-gnutls-dev (« 7.30.0-2), libcurl4-nss-dev (« 7.30.0-2), libcurl4-openssl-dev (« 7.30.0-2) Filename: pool/main/c/curl/libcurl4-doc_7.68.0-1ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 829380 MD5sum: cf12f8576309a135ce4e48f1d5395f0f SHA1: c7723e3a254f735cd20909f9fa7fff482cef6a05 SHA256: 9a7a9cde36b153baed6ebd56f77f02e14b4188b92a9582da2a36724e0fcb5447 Homepage: http://curl.haxx.se Description-en: documentation for libcurl libcurl is an easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP.
libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!
libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.
This package provides the documentation files for libcurl.
There are three methods to install libcurl4-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcurl4-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcurl4-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-doc
Install libcurl4-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcurl4-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcurl4-doc
Install libcurl4-doc 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 libcurl4-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcurl4-doc
How To Uninstall libcurl4-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcurl4-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcurl4-doc
Uninstall libcurl4-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcurl4-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcurl4-doc
Remove libcurl4-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libcurl4-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcurl4-doc
Remove libcurl4-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcurl4-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcurl4-doc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurl4-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.