How To Install liblgpio1 on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblgpio1 on Ubuntu 22.04. liblgpio1 is Control GPIO pins via the kernels gpiochip device interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblgpio1 on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is liblgpio1

liblgpio1 is:

The lgpio library is a fully featured library for controlling the GPIO pins of the local board. It includes facilities for software PWM, callbacks on level change, I2C, SPI, and UART wrappers.

This package contains the lgpio library itself.

There are three methods to install liblgpio1 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 liblgpio1 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblgpio1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblgpio1

Install liblgpio1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblgpio1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblgpio1

Install liblgpio1 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 liblgpio1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblgpio1

How To Uninstall liblgpio1 on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the liblgpio1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblgpio1

Uninstall liblgpio1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblgpio1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblgpio1

Remove liblgpio1 Configurations and Data

To remove liblgpio1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblgpio1

Remove liblgpio1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblgpio1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblgpio1

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblgpio1 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.