How To Install libio-string-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libio-string-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libio-string-perl
libio-string-perl is:
The IO::String module provide the IO::File interface for in-core strings. An IO::String object can be attached to a string, and will make it possible to use the normal file operations for reading or writing data, as well as seeking to various locations of the string. The main reason you might want to do this, is if you have some other library module that only provide an interface to file handles, and you want to keep all the stuff in memory.
The IO::String module provide an interface compatible with IO::File as distributed with IO-1.20, but the following methods are not available; new_from_fd, fdopen, format_write, format_page_number, format_lines_per_page, format_lines_left, format_name, format_top_name.
There are three methods to install libio-string-perl on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libio-string-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 libio-string-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libio-string-perl
Install libio-string-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libio-string-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libio-string-perl
Install libio-string-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 libio-string-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libio-string-perl
How To Uninstall libio-string-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libio-string-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libio-string-perl
Uninstall libio-string-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libio-string-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libio-string-perl
Remove libio-string-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libio-string-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libio-string-perl
Remove libio-string-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libio-string-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libio-string-perl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libio-string-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
