How To Install libconfig++9v5 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libconfig++9v5
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libconfig++9v5
libconfig++9v5 is:
This library features a fully reentrant parser and includes bindings for both the C and C++ programming languages. It runs on modern POSIX-compliant systems such as Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X (Darwin), as well as on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP and later (Visual Studio or MinGW).
This library allows parsing, manipulating and writing structured configuration files.
This is the C++ binding. Task: ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop
There are three methods to install libconfig++9v5
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 libconfig++9v5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libconfig++9v5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libconfig++9v5
Install libconfig++9v5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libconfig++9v5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libconfig++9v5
Install libconfig++9v5 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 libconfig++9v5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libconfig++9v5
How To Uninstall libconfig++9v5 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libconfig++9v5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libconfig++9v5
Uninstall libconfig++9v5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libconfig++9v5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libconfig++9v5
Remove libconfig++9v5 Configurations and Data
To remove libconfig++9v5
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libconfig++9v5
Remove libconfig++9v5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libconfig++9v5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libconfig++9v5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libconfig++9v5
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.