How To Install gssdp-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gssdp-tools on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gssdp-tools
gssdp-tools is:
A GObject-based API for doing SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) transparently.
This package contains some tools, such as gssdp-device-sniffer.
Package: gssdp-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.2.2-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: gssdp Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 65 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.54), libgssdp-1.2-0 (>= 0.14.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.26.1) Filename: pool/universe/g/gssdp/gssdp-tools_1.2.2-1_amd64.deb Size: 12500 MD5sum: bc6d3906b6a4ee72e5d9df236fd978de SHA1: ec6bafe701cc60c41812d135e247e4b5d5f30684 SHA256: ebd3311080407d4a28794d9f3d82ed7332f7df1621dde47eb82d4613bc758009 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GUPnP Description-en: GObject-based library for SSDP (tools) A GObject-based API for doing SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) transparently.
This package contains some tools, such as gssdp-device-sniffer.
There are three methods to install gssdp-tools on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gssdp-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 gssdp-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gssdp-tools
Install gssdp-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gssdp-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gssdp-tools
Install gssdp-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 gssdp-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gssdp-tools
How To Uninstall gssdp-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gssdp-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gssdp-tools
Uninstall gssdp-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gssdp-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gssdp-tools
Remove gssdp-tools Configurations and Data
To remove gssdp-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gssdp-tools
Remove gssdp-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gssdp-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gssdp-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gssdp-tools package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.