How To Install libipaddr-ocaml on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libipaddr-ocaml
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libipaddr-ocaml
libipaddr-ocaml is:
This is a library for manipulation of IP (and MAC) address representations.
Features:
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR prefix support
- IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR-scoped address support
- Integration with the standard OCaml distribution (Map.OrderedType, Unix, top-level)
- IP address scope classification
- IPv4-mapped addresses in IPv6 (::ffff:0:0/96) are an embedding of IPv4
- MAC-48 (Ethernet) address support
- All types have sexplib serializers/deserializers
This package contains the shared runtime libraries.
There are three methods to install libipaddr-ocaml
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 libipaddr-ocaml Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libipaddr-ocaml
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libipaddr-ocaml
Install libipaddr-ocaml Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libipaddr-ocaml
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libipaddr-ocaml
Install libipaddr-ocaml 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 libipaddr-ocaml
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libipaddr-ocaml
How To Uninstall libipaddr-ocaml on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libipaddr-ocaml
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libipaddr-ocaml
Uninstall libipaddr-ocaml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libipaddr-ocaml
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libipaddr-ocaml
Remove libipaddr-ocaml Configurations and Data
To remove libipaddr-ocaml
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libipaddr-ocaml
Remove libipaddr-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libipaddr-ocaml
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libipaddr-ocaml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libipaddr-ocaml
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.