How To Install libevdev-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libevdev-doc
libevdev-doc is:
libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. It provides functions covering the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls and other errors.
This package contains the documentation for developers wishing to build software using libevdev.
Package: libevdev-doc Architecture: all Version: 1.9.0+dfsg-1 Built-Using: doxygen (= 1.8.17-0ubuntu1) Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/doc Source: libevdev Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Stephen Kitt [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1241 Depends: libjs-bootstrap Breaks: libevdev-dev (« 1.5.7) Replaces: libevdev-dev (« 1.5.7) Filename: pool/universe/libe/libevdev/libevdev-doc_1.9.0+dfsg-1_all.deb Size: 189108 MD5sum: 332812fa54d628cf60e18158a7a0f91c SHA1: d8af6cfbe00bad5a5bbb382bdb60bdc7b8b370fd SHA256: 44df29d69b11a09f3f7a370d598fc3630282a64842b8bf5f48eb610668e5c2ad Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libevdev/ Description-en: wrapper library for evdev devices - development docs libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. It provides functions covering the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls and other errors.
This package contains the documentation for developers wishing to build software using libevdev.
There are three methods to install libevdev-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 libevdev-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 libevdev-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libevdev-doc
Install libevdev-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libevdev-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libevdev-doc
Install libevdev-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 libevdev-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libevdev-doc
How To Uninstall libevdev-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libevdev-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libevdev-doc
Uninstall libevdev-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libevdev-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libevdev-doc
Remove libevdev-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libevdev-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libevdev-doc
Remove libevdev-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libevdev-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libevdev-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
