How To Install liblwres160 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwres160 on Ubuntu 18.04. liblwres160 is Lightweight Resolver Library used by BIND

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwres160 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblwres160

liblwres160 is:

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet domain name server. BIND is the most widely-used name server software on the Internet, and is supported by the Internet Software Consortium, www.isc.org.

This package delivers the liblwres shared library used by BIND’s daemons and clients.

There are three methods to install liblwres160 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblwres160 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblwres160 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblwres160

Install liblwres160 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblwres160 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblwres160

Install liblwres160 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 liblwres160 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblwres160

How To Uninstall liblwres160 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblwres160 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblwres160

Uninstall liblwres160 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblwres160 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblwres160

Remove liblwres160 Configurations and Data

To remove liblwres160 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblwres160

Remove liblwres160 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblwres160 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblwres160

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwres160 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.