How To Install gobject-introspection on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gobject-introspection on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gobject-introspection
gobject-introspection is:
GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection data can be used in several different use cases, for example automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation generation.
GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the introspection data.
This package contains tools for extracting introspection data from libraries and transforming it to different formats.
There are three methods to install gobject-introspection 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 gobject-introspection Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gobject-introspection using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gobject-introspection
Install gobject-introspection Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gobject-introspection using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gobject-introspection
Install gobject-introspection 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 gobject-introspection using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gobject-introspection
How To Uninstall gobject-introspection on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gobject-introspection package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gobject-introspection
Uninstall gobject-introspection And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gobject-introspection and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gobject-introspection
Remove gobject-introspection Configurations and Data
To remove gobject-introspection configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gobject-introspection
Remove gobject-introspection configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gobject-introspection configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gobject-introspection
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gobject-introspection package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
