How To Install sip-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is sip-tools
sip-tools is:
SIP is a collection of tools that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C and C++ libraries.
This package contains the following command line tools:
- sip-build
- sip-distinfo
- sip-install
- sip-module
- sip-sdist
- sip-wheel
There are three methods to install sip-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sip-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sip-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sip-tools
Install sip-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sip-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sip-tools
Install sip-tools 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 sip-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sip-tools
How To Uninstall sip-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the sip-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sip-tools
Uninstall sip-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sip-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sip-tools
Remove sip-tools Configurations and Data
To remove sip-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sip-tools
Remove sip-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sip-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sip-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip-tools
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.