How To Install liballeggl4.4 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liballeggl4.4
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liballeggl4.4
liballeggl4.4 is:
AllegroGL is an Allegro add-on that allows you to use OpenGL alongside Allegro – you use OpenGL for your rendering to the screen, and Allegro for miscellaneous tasks like gathering input, doing timers, getting cross-platform portability, loading data, and drawing your textures. So this library fills the same hole that things like glut do.
AllegroGL also automatically exposes most, if not all, OpenGL extensions available to user programs. This means you no longer have to manually load them; extension management is already done for you.
Allegro is a cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform.
There are three methods to install liballeggl4.4
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 liballeggl4.4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liballeggl4.4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liballeggl4.4
Install liballeggl4.4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liballeggl4.4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liballeggl4.4
Install liballeggl4.4 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 liballeggl4.4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liballeggl4.4
How To Uninstall liballeggl4.4 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liballeggl4.4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liballeggl4.4
Uninstall liballeggl4.4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liballeggl4.4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liballeggl4.4
Remove liballeggl4.4 Configurations and Data
To remove liballeggl4.4
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liballeggl4.4
Remove liballeggl4.4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liballeggl4.4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liballeggl4.4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liballeggl4.4
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.