How To Install blueprint-tools on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install blueprint-tools on Ubuntu 22.04. blueprint-tools is Blueprint meta build system (command-line tools)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blueprint-tools on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is blueprint-tools

blueprint-tools is:

Blueprint is a meta-build system that reads in Blueprints files that describe modules that need to be built, and produces a Ninja manifest describing the commands that need to be run and their dependencies. Where most build systems use built-in rules or a domain-specific language to describe the logic for converting module descriptions to build rules, Blueprint delegates this to per-project build logic written in Go. For large, heterogenous projects this allows the inherent complexity of the build logic to be maintained in a high-level language, while still allowing simple changes to individual modules by modifying easy to understand Blueprints files.

This package contains command-line tools for Blueprint.

There are three methods to install blueprint-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 blueprint-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 blueprint-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install blueprint-tools

Install blueprint-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install blueprint-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install blueprint-tools

Install blueprint-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 blueprint-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install blueprint-tools

How To Uninstall blueprint-tools on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the blueprint-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove blueprint-tools

Uninstall blueprint-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall blueprint-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove blueprint-tools

Remove blueprint-tools Configurations and Data

To remove blueprint-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge blueprint-tools

Remove blueprint-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove blueprint-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blueprint-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blueprint-tools package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.