How To Install liblgpio-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblgpio-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is liblgpio-dev
liblgpio-dev is:
The lgpio library is a fully featured library for controlling the GPIO pins of the local board. It includes facilities for software PWM, callbacks on level change, I2C, SPI, and UART wrappers.
This package contains the header files needed to use lgpio from C applications.
There are three methods to install liblgpio-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblgpio-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 liblgpio-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblgpio-dev
Install liblgpio-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblgpio-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblgpio-dev
Install liblgpio-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 liblgpio-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblgpio-dev
How To Uninstall liblgpio-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the liblgpio-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblgpio-dev
Uninstall liblgpio-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblgpio-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblgpio-dev
Remove liblgpio-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblgpio-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblgpio-dev
Remove liblgpio-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblgpio-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblgpio-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblgpio-dev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.