How To Install liballegro4.4 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liballegro4.4
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liballegro4.4
liballegro4.4 is:
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 liballegro4.4
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 liballegro4.4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liballegro4.4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liballegro4.4
Install liballegro4.4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liballegro4.4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liballegro4.4
Install liballegro4.4 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 liballegro4.4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liballegro4.4
How To Uninstall liballegro4.4 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liballegro4.4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liballegro4.4
Uninstall liballegro4.4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liballegro4.4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liballegro4.4
Remove liballegro4.4 Configurations and Data
To remove liballegro4.4
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liballegro4.4
Remove liballegro4.4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liballegro4.4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liballegro4.4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liballegro4.4
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.