How To Install libawl-php on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libawl-php on Ubuntu 20.04. libawl-php is Andrews Web Libraries - PHP Utility Libraries Andrews Web Libraries - PHP Utility Libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libawl-php on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libawl-php

libawl-php is:

This package contains Andrew’s Web Libraries. This is a set of hopefully lightweight libraries for handling a variety of useful things for web programming, including:

  • Session management
  • User management
  • DB Records
  • Simple reporting
  • DB Schema Updating
  • iCalendar parsing

There is some documentation in the awl-doc package.

Package: libawl-php Architecture: all Version: 0.60-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: universe/web Source: awl Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Davical Development Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 468 Recommends: php | php5 Filename: pool/universe/a/awl/libawl-php_0.60-1_all.deb Size: 85432 MD5sum: 3305043cfa54e8eb60e5e752c1ef11da SHA1: 77ca3766c2e53123e505c6a781a7f9db6d273892 SHA256: 01d93e04f294d953475969a568f40c796a8422f7599e41d540c16810aa318975 Homepage: https://www.davical.org Description-en: Andrew’s Web Libraries - PHP Utility Libraries This package contains Andrew’s Web Libraries. This is a set of hopefully lightweight libraries for handling a variety of useful things for web programming, including:

  • Session management
  • User management
  • DB Records
  • Simple reporting
  • DB Schema Updating
  • iCalendar parsing

There is some documentation in the awl-doc package.

There are three methods to install libawl-php 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 libawl-php Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libawl-php using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libawl-php

Install libawl-php Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libawl-php using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libawl-php

Install libawl-php 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 libawl-php using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libawl-php

How To Uninstall libawl-php on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libawl-php package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libawl-php

Uninstall libawl-php And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libawl-php and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libawl-php

Remove libawl-php Configurations and Data

To remove libawl-php configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libawl-php

Remove libawl-php configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libawl-php configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libawl-php

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libawl-php package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.