How To Install libbiniou-ocaml on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiniou-ocaml on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libbiniou-ocaml
libbiniou-ocaml is:
Biniou is a binary data format designed for speed, safety, ease of use and backward compatibility as protocols evolve. Biniou is vastly equivalent to JSON in terms of functionality but allows implementations about 4 times as fast (see godi-yojson for comparison), with 25-35% space savings. Biniou data can be decoded into human-readable form without knowledge of type definitions except for field and variant names which are represented by 31-bit hashes.
This package contains the shared runtime libraries.
There are three methods to install libbiniou-ocaml 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 libbiniou-ocaml Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libbiniou-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbiniou-ocaml
Install libbiniou-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbiniou-ocaml using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbiniou-ocaml
Install libbiniou-ocaml 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 libbiniou-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbiniou-ocaml
How To Uninstall libbiniou-ocaml on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libbiniou-ocaml package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbiniou-ocaml
Uninstall libbiniou-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbiniou-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbiniou-ocaml
Remove libbiniou-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove libbiniou-ocaml configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbiniou-ocaml
Remove libbiniou-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbiniou-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbiniou-ocaml
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbiniou-ocaml package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
