How To Install icu-devtools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icu-devtools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is icu-devtools
icu-devtools is:
ICU is a C++ and C library that provides robust and full-featured Unicode and locale support. This package contains programs used to manipulate data files found in the ICU sources and is a dependency of libicu-dev. End users would generally not need to install this package.
There are three methods to install icu-devtools
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 icu-devtools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icu-devtools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icu-devtools
Install icu-devtools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icu-devtools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icu-devtools
Install icu-devtools 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 icu-devtools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icu-devtools
How To Uninstall icu-devtools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the icu-devtools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icu-devtools
Uninstall icu-devtools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icu-devtools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icu-devtools
Remove icu-devtools Configurations and Data
To remove icu-devtools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icu-devtools
Remove icu-devtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icu-devtools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icu-devtools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icu-devtools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.