How To Install libjson-c-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjson-c-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libjson-c-dev
libjson-c-dev is:
This library allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects.
The development headers for compiling programs that use libjson-c are provided by this package.
Package: libjson-c-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.13.1+dfsg-7 Multi-Arch: same Priority: extra Section: libdevel Source: json-c Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 215 Depends: libjson-c4 (= 0.13.1+dfsg-7) Filename: pool/main/j/json-c/libjson-c-dev_0.13.1+dfsg-7_amd64.deb Size: 46736 MD5sum: 5064adb3de26e4900a2ce1989d2fd992 SHA1: 1348dc523e4e9e934c9e1bdeecf49fbff0bf2430 SHA256: a83efd6d551845d4baebf8f908dfe0ea16591e5865be388288b34750a4a12bff Homepage: https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki Description-en: JSON manipulation library - development files This library allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects.
The development headers for compiling programs that use libjson-c are provided by this package.
There are three methods to install libjson-c-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 libjson-c-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 libjson-c-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjson-c-dev
Install libjson-c-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjson-c-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjson-c-dev
Install libjson-c-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 libjson-c-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjson-c-dev
How To Uninstall libjson-c-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libjson-c-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjson-c-dev
Uninstall libjson-c-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjson-c-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjson-c-dev
Remove libjson-c-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libjson-c-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjson-c-dev
Remove libjson-c-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjson-c-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjson-c-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjson-c-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.