How To Install libelemental-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libelemental-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libelemental-dev
libelemental-dev is:
gElemental is a GTK+ periodic table viewer that provides detailed information about chemical elements.
It features a table view which allows the elements to be coloured thematically by several properties, a sortable list view and an element properties dialog, displaying a variety of information, including historical, thermodynamic, electrochemical, and crystallographic properties.
This package contains the development libraries and headers.
There are three methods to install libelemental-dev
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 libelemental-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libelemental-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libelemental-dev
Install libelemental-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libelemental-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libelemental-dev
Install libelemental-dev 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 libelemental-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libelemental-dev
How To Uninstall libelemental-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libelemental-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libelemental-dev
Uninstall libelemental-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libelemental-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libelemental-dev
Remove libelemental-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libelemental-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libelemental-dev
Remove libelemental-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libelemental-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libelemental-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libelemental-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.