How To Install libavahi-glib1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavahi-glib1
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libavahi-glib1
libavahi-glib1 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 library contains the interface to integrate the Avahi libraries into a GLib main loop application, including GTK+ applications. Task: print-server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: libavahi-glib1 Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.7-4ubuntu7 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs 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: 74 Depends: libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0) Filename: pool/main/a/avahi/libavahi-glib1_0.7-4ubuntu7_amd64.deb Size: 7804 MD5sum: 1f0bd80b2110c39153cf5326e57edeef SHA1: ecc478896f78ff78f8c7f957ab0e56d39336b021 SHA256: 3a3c40f33b4baaa12429f415281b5f544fd8a5b26ed650e3adaa2b5c241711b0 Homepage: http://avahi.org/ Description-en: 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 library contains the interface to integrate the Avahi libraries into a GLib main loop application, including GTK+ applications. Task: print-server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libavahi-glib1
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-glib1 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-glib1
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavahi-glib1
Install libavahi-glib1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavahi-glib1
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavahi-glib1
Install libavahi-glib1 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-glib1
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavahi-glib1
How To Uninstall libavahi-glib1 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libavahi-glib1
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavahi-glib1
Uninstall libavahi-glib1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavahi-glib1
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavahi-glib1
Remove libavahi-glib1 Configurations and Data
To remove libavahi-glib1
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavahi-glib1
Remove libavahi-glib1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavahi-glib1
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavahi-glib1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavahi-glib1
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.