How To Install flickcurl-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flickcurl-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is flickcurl-doc
flickcurl-doc is:
Flickcurl is a C library for the Flickr API, handling creating the requests, signing, token management, calling the API, marshalling request parameters and decoding responses. The library now supports 100% of the 2008-01-11 version of the API, including the functions for photo uploading, browsing, searching, adding and editing comments, groups, notes, photosets, categories, activity, blogs, favorites, places, tags and photo metadata. It also includes a program flickrdf to turn photo metadata, tags and machine tags into RDF descriptions of photos and tags.
Support for the Flickr API in these programs is through the libflickcurl library.
This package contains the HTML documentation for flickcurl and the related library.
There are three methods to install flickcurl-doc 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 flickcurl-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flickcurl-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flickcurl-doc
Install flickcurl-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flickcurl-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flickcurl-doc
Install flickcurl-doc 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 flickcurl-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flickcurl-doc
How To Uninstall flickcurl-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the flickcurl-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flickcurl-doc
Uninstall flickcurl-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flickcurl-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flickcurl-doc
Remove flickcurl-doc Configurations and Data
To remove flickcurl-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flickcurl-doc
Remove flickcurl-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flickcurl-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flickcurl-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flickcurl-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
