How To Install libsword-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsword-dbg
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libsword-dbg
libsword-dbg is:
The SWORD Project is an open source, cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Solaris, MacOSX etc.) API/library for Bible software with a constantly growing list of front-ends (GUI, textmode, web-based, etc.) and a library of over 200 text modules.
This package contains the debug symbols for the libsword library.
There are three methods to install libsword-dbg
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 libsword-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsword-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsword-dbg
Install libsword-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsword-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsword-dbg
Install libsword-dbg 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 libsword-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsword-dbg
How To Uninstall libsword-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libsword-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsword-dbg
Uninstall libsword-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsword-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsword-dbg
Remove libsword-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libsword-dbg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsword-dbg
Remove libsword-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsword-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsword-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsword-dbg
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.