How To Install libmaliit-glib-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmaliit-glib-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmaliit-glib-dev
libmaliit-glib-dev is:
Maliit provides a flexible and cross-platform input method framework. It has a plugin-based client-server architecture where applications act as clients and communicate with the Maliit server via input context plugins. The communication link currently uses D-Bus. Maliit is an open source framework (LGPL 2) with open source plugins (BSD).
This package provides GLib development headers for the Maliit framework.
There are three methods to install libmaliit-glib-dev
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 libmaliit-glib-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 libmaliit-glib-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmaliit-glib-dev
Install libmaliit-glib-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmaliit-glib-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmaliit-glib-dev
Install libmaliit-glib-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 libmaliit-glib-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmaliit-glib-dev
How To Uninstall libmaliit-glib-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmaliit-glib-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmaliit-glib-dev
Uninstall libmaliit-glib-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmaliit-glib-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmaliit-glib-dev
Remove libmaliit-glib-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmaliit-glib-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmaliit-glib-dev
Remove libmaliit-glib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmaliit-glib-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmaliit-glib-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmaliit-glib-dev
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.