How To Install libuv0.10-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libuv0.10-dbg
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libuv0.10-dbg
libuv0.10-dbg is:
Libuv is the asynchronous library behind Node.js. Very similar to libevent or libev, it provides the main elements for event driven systems: watching and waiting for availability in a set of sockets, and some other events like timers or asynchronous messages. However, libuv also comes with some other extras like:
- files watchers and asynchronous operations
- a portable TCP and UDP API, as well as asynchronous DNS resolution
- processes and threads management, and a portable inter-process communications mechanism, with pipes and work queues
- a plugins mechanism for loading libraries dynamically
- interface with external libraries that also need to access the I/O.
This package provides the debugging symbols for the library.
There are three methods to install libuv0.10-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 libuv0.10-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 libuv0.10-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libuv0.10-dbg
Install libuv0.10-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libuv0.10-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libuv0.10-dbg
Install libuv0.10-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 libuv0.10-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libuv0.10-dbg
How To Uninstall libuv0.10-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libuv0.10-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libuv0.10-dbg
Uninstall libuv0.10-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libuv0.10-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libuv0.10-dbg
Remove libuv0.10-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libuv0.10-dbg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libuv0.10-dbg
Remove libuv0.10-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libuv0.10-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libuv0.10-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libuv0.10-dbg
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.