How To Install libcoap-1-0-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcoap-1-0-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libcoap-1-0-doc
libcoap-1-0-doc is:
Lightweight application-protocol for devices that are constrained their resources such as computing power, RF range, memory, bandwidth, or network packet sizes. This protocol, CoAP, is developed in the IETF working group “CoRE”, http://6lowapp.net and was standardized in RFC 7252.
This package contains the Doxygen generated library API HTML documentation for libcoap. They can be accessed by open /usr/share/doc/libcoap-1-0-doc/html/index.html.
There are three methods to install libcoap-1-0-doc 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 libcoap-1-0-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcoap-1-0-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcoap-1-0-doc
Install libcoap-1-0-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcoap-1-0-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcoap-1-0-doc
Install libcoap-1-0-doc 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 libcoap-1-0-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcoap-1-0-doc
How To Uninstall libcoap-1-0-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libcoap-1-0-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcoap-1-0-doc
Uninstall libcoap-1-0-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcoap-1-0-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcoap-1-0-doc
Remove libcoap-1-0-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libcoap-1-0-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcoap-1-0-doc
Remove libcoap-1-0-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcoap-1-0-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcoap-1-0-doc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcoap-1-0-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
