How To Install gammaray-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gammaray-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. gammaray-dev is GammaRay plugin development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gammaray-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is gammaray-dev

gammaray-dev is:

GammaRay is a tool for examining the internals of a Qt application and to some extent also manipulate it. GammaRay uses injection methods to hook into an application at runtime and provide access to a wide variety of interesting information. It provides easy ways of navigating through the complex internal structures you find in some Qt frameworks, such as QGraphicsView, model/view, QTextDocument, state machines and more.

This package contains header files used for building 3rd party GammaRay plugins.

There are three methods to install gammaray-dev 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 gammaray-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gammaray-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gammaray-dev

Install gammaray-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gammaray-dev

Install gammaray-dev 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 gammaray-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gammaray-dev

How To Uninstall gammaray-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the gammaray-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gammaray-dev

Uninstall gammaray-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gammaray-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gammaray-dev

Remove gammaray-dev Configurations and Data

To remove gammaray-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gammaray-dev

Remove gammaray-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gammaray-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gammaray-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.