How To Install libast2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libast2
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libast2
libast2 is:
LibAST is the Library of Assorted Spiffy Things. It contains many spiffy things, and it is a library. Thus, the ever-so-creative name. LibAST has been previously known as libmej, the Eterm helper library which nobody really understood and certainly never used. The plan is to gradually remove some of the neat stuff from Eterm that could be made generic (things like the theme parsing engine, the command-line options parser, perhaps the event engine, …) and place it here in the hopes that others will find them useful.
There are three methods to install libast2
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 libast2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libast2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libast2
Install libast2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libast2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libast2
Install libast2 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 libast2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libast2
How To Uninstall libast2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libast2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libast2
Uninstall libast2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libast2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libast2
Remove libast2 Configurations and Data
To remove libast2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libast2
Remove libast2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libast2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libast2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libast2
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.