How To Install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache
libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache is:
Ocamlnet is a collection of OCaml libraries focusing focus on application-level Internet protocols and conventions.
Ocamlnet consists of the following libraries:
- netstring: processing of strings that occur in network context
- netcgi2: portable web applications
- nethttpd: is a web server component (HTTP server implementation)
- netplex: generic server framework
- rpc: OncRPC implementation
- netclient: clients for HTTP, FTP, and Telnet
- equeue: event queue used for many protocol implementations
- shell: external commands invocation
- netshm: shared memory for IPC purposes
- netsys: bindings for system functions
- smtp and pop: two further client implementations
A number of ideas and concepts are used throughout the libraries:
- netchannels are a way to abstract sequential I/O channels
- event queues provided by equeue and unixqueue make asynchronous protocol interpreters possible
This package contains the mod_netcgi_apache Apache module. You will need this module to run web applications built using the netcgi2 Apache connector of OCamlnet. With this package Apache can serve them directly as OCaml compiled modules.
There are three methods to install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache 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 libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache
Install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache
Install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache 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 libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache
How To Uninstall libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache
Uninstall libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache
Remove libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache Configurations and Data
To remove libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache
Remove libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libapache2-mod-netcgi-apache package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
