How To Install libavahi-glib-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavahi-glib-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libavahi-glib-dev
libavahi-glib-dev is:
Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
This package contains the development headers for the interface to integrate the Avahi libraries into a GLib main loop application, including GTK+ applications.
Package: libavahi-glib-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.7-4ubuntu7 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: net Source: avahi Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 79 Depends: libavahi-glib1 (= 0.7-4ubuntu7), libglib2.0-dev, libavahi-common-dev Filename: pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-glib-dev_0.7-4ubuntu7_amd64.deb Size: 10244 MD5sum: 4d12358e894f6711a73c78bc144e4ae4 SHA1: 045149e9ee92d2d5761ed7cccfbb4b1d6bbf6eaa SHA256: 151db7ddb39721961b0bd473840485f8fa03db9e781db82e80b6cb6c0aed5ac2 Homepage: http://avahi.org/ Description-en: Development headers for the Avahi GLib integration library Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
This package contains the development headers for the interface to integrate the Avahi libraries into a GLib main loop application, including GTK+ applications.
There are three methods to install libavahi-glib-dev
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 libavahi-glib-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavahi-glib-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavahi-glib-dev
Install libavahi-glib-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavahi-glib-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavahi-glib-dev
Install libavahi-glib-dev 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 libavahi-glib-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavahi-glib-dev
How To Uninstall libavahi-glib-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libavahi-glib-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavahi-glib-dev
Uninstall libavahi-glib-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavahi-glib-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavahi-glib-dev
Remove libavahi-glib-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libavahi-glib-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavahi-glib-dev
Remove libavahi-glib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavahi-glib-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavahi-glib-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavahi-glib-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.