How To Install libgsound-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgsound-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libgsound-dev
libgsound-dev is:
GSound is a small library for playing system sounds. It’s designed to be used via GObject Introspection, and is a thin wrapper around the libcanberra C library.
This package contains the static library and development headers.
There are three methods to install libgsound-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 libgsound-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 libgsound-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgsound-dev
Install libgsound-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgsound-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgsound-dev
Install libgsound-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 libgsound-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgsound-dev
How To Uninstall libgsound-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libgsound-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgsound-dev
Uninstall libgsound-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgsound-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgsound-dev
Remove libgsound-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libgsound-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgsound-dev
Remove libgsound-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgsound-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgsound-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgsound-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.