How To Install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev is:
JavaScriptCore is the JavaScript engine used in WebKit. It consists of the following building blocks: lexer, parser, start-up interpreter (LLInt), baseline JIT, a low-latency optimizing JIT (DFG), and a high-throughput optimizing JIT (FTL).
This build comes from the GTK port of WebKit (API version 4.0).
This package contains the development files.
Package: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.28.1-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: extra Section: libdevel Source: webkit2gtk Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian WebKit Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 631 Depends: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 (= 2.28.1-1), gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 (= 2.28.1-1) Filename: pool/main/w/webkit2gtk/libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev_2.28.1-1_amd64.deb Size: 58488 MD5sum: d61b66200b84c3d415ea968e19eb6208 SHA1: 7c9f2d51641a9d70bf03b9004f2dfd2b2e0602d9 SHA256: ce7ff77f77c5f392548c8f0ff15d9c4697f81a5081ed07bb71b10b6bd385f73e Homepage: https://webkitgtk.org/ Description-en: JavaScript engine library from WebKitGTK - development files JavaScriptCore is the JavaScript engine used in WebKit. It consists of the following building blocks: lexer, parser, start-up interpreter (LLInt), baseline JIT, a low-latency optimizing JIT (DFG), and a high-throughput optimizing JIT (FTL).
This build comes from the GTK port of WebKit (API version 4.0).
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-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 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-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 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
Install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
Install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-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 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
How To Uninstall libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
Uninstall libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
Remove libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
Remove libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.