How To Install libevdev-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev-tools on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libevdev-tools
libevdev-tools is:
libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. It provides functions covering the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls and other errors.
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Package: libevdev-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.9.0+dfsg-1 Priority: extra Section: universe/utils Source: libevdev Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Stephen Kitt [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 71 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libevdev2 (>= 0.9.1) Filename: pool/universe/libe/libevdev/libevdev-tools_1.9.0+dfsg-1_amd64.deb Size: 15084 MD5sum: 620d7f2fe44d807d7e7eee1612585ae8 SHA1: 3fef0740179a380172c89a7a5d600a3d31e84981 SHA256: 3c23c7bb28de7b6a223ef0a94748f0a076327e887c0d949a1608cc6d3d37e829 Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libevdev/ Description-en: wrapper library for evdev devices - tools libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. It provides functions covering the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls and other errors.
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There are three methods to install libevdev-tools 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 libevdev-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libevdev-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libevdev-tools
Install libevdev-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libevdev-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libevdev-tools
Install libevdev-tools 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 libevdev-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libevdev-tools
How To Uninstall libevdev-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libevdev-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libevdev-tools
Uninstall libevdev-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libevdev-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libevdev-tools
Remove libevdev-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libevdev-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libevdev-tools
Remove libevdev-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libevdev-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libevdev-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev-tools package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.