How To Install libisocodes-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libisocodes-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libisocodes-dev
libisocodes-dev is:
This library can be used to easily access XML data of the iso-codes package. It will provide an abstraction layer to handle both the version 3 and the upcoming version 4 of iso-codes. Moreover, all available translations can be used as well.
This library makes use of the GObject introspection features, so that it is accessible from a variety of programming languages, for example C, Vala, Ruby, Python, Perl, Lua, JavaScript, PHP and many more.
Install this package if you wish to develop your own programs using the libisocodes library.
There are three methods to install libisocodes-dev 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 libisocodes-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 libisocodes-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libisocodes-dev
Install libisocodes-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libisocodes-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libisocodes-dev
Install libisocodes-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 libisocodes-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libisocodes-dev
How To Uninstall libisocodes-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libisocodes-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libisocodes-dev
Uninstall libisocodes-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libisocodes-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libisocodes-dev
Remove libisocodes-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libisocodes-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libisocodes-dev
Remove libisocodes-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libisocodes-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libisocodes-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libisocodes-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
