How To Install libcurses-perl on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurses-perl
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libcurses-perl
libcurses-perl is:
libcurses-perl (the Curses module from CPAN) will let you use the ncurses/curses terminal screen manipulation routines from Perl programs.
There are three methods to install libcurses-perl
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcurses-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcurses-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcurses-perl
Install libcurses-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcurses-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcurses-perl
Install libcurses-perl 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 libcurses-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcurses-perl
How To Uninstall libcurses-perl on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libcurses-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcurses-perl
Uninstall libcurses-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcurses-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcurses-perl
Remove libcurses-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libcurses-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcurses-perl
Remove libcurses-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcurses-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcurses-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurses-perl
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.