How To Install libcomedi0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcomedi0
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcomedi0
libcomedi0 is:
Comedilib is a library for using Comedi, a driver interface for data acquisition hardware. Comedi supports a wide variety of ISA and PCI devices that contain analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters, digital input/output, counters and timers. The full list of support devices can be found in the libcomedi-dev documentation.
This package contains the shared library component of Comedilib. In general, this package will be automatically installed as a dependency of application or other library packages.
In order to effectively use this package, you need to have compiled and installed the Comedi kernel modules. The source for Comedi is available in the comedi-source package, which also contains instructions on how to compile and install the modules.
There are three methods to install libcomedi0
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 libcomedi0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcomedi0
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcomedi0
Install libcomedi0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcomedi0
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcomedi0
Install libcomedi0 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 libcomedi0
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcomedi0
How To Uninstall libcomedi0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcomedi0
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcomedi0
Uninstall libcomedi0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcomedi0
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcomedi0
Remove libcomedi0 Configurations and Data
To remove libcomedi0
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcomedi0
Remove libcomedi0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcomedi0
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcomedi0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcomedi0
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.