How To Install glabels-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glabels-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is glabels-dev
glabels-dev is:
gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels, barcodes, business cards and media covers for the GNOME desktop environment.
This package provides the development environment for libglabels, which is meant to facilitate 3rd party use of glabels templates.
There are three methods to install glabels-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 glabels-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 glabels-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glabels-dev
Install glabels-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glabels-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glabels-dev
Install glabels-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 glabels-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glabels-dev
How To Uninstall glabels-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the glabels-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glabels-dev
Uninstall glabels-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glabels-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glabels-dev
Remove glabels-dev Configurations and Data
To remove glabels-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glabels-dev
Remove glabels-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glabels-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glabels-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glabels-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
