How To Install libtinfo6 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtinfo6
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libtinfo6
libtinfo6 is:
The ncurses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization.
This package contains the shared low-level terminfo library. Task: minimal
There are three methods to install libtinfo6
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 libtinfo6 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtinfo6
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtinfo6
Install libtinfo6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtinfo6
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtinfo6
Install libtinfo6 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 libtinfo6
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtinfo6
How To Uninstall libtinfo6 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libtinfo6
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtinfo6
Uninstall libtinfo6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtinfo6
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtinfo6
Remove libtinfo6 Configurations and Data
To remove libtinfo6
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtinfo6
Remove libtinfo6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtinfo6
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtinfo6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtinfo6
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.