How To Install libdx4 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdx4
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libdx4
libdx4 is:
Data Explorer is a system of tools and user interfaces for visualizing data. In general terms the visualization of data can be considered a 3-stage process: 1. Describing and importing data 2. Processing the data through a visualization program 3. Presenting the resulting image. This is the package containing the shared libraries. Programs that use routines from the OpenDX classes usually depend on it.
There are three methods to install libdx4
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 libdx4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libdx4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdx4
Install libdx4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdx4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdx4
Install libdx4 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 libdx4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdx4
How To Uninstall libdx4 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libdx4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdx4
Uninstall libdx4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdx4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdx4
Remove libdx4 Configurations and Data
To remove libdx4
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdx4
Remove libdx4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdx4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdx4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdx4
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.