How To Install liblilv-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblilv-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. liblilv-dev is library for simple use of LV2 plugins (development files) library for simple use of LV2 plugins (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblilv-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is liblilv-dev

liblilv-dev is:

Lilv (formerly SLV2) is a library for LV2 hosts intended to make using LV2 Plugins as simple as possible (without sacrificing capabilities).

Lilv is the successor to SLV2, rewritten to be significantly faster and have minimal dependencies.

This package provides the development files.

Package: liblilv-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.24.6-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Source: lilv Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 97 Depends: liblilv-0-0 (= 0.24.6-1), libserd-dev (>= 0.22.0~), libsord-dev (>= 0.14.0~), libsratom-dev (>= 0.4.0~), lv2-dev Filename: pool/universe/l/lilv/liblilv-dev_0.24.6-1_amd64.deb Size: 18548 MD5sum: 8a66c0520c6c7b258a91565f68c14e45 SHA1: 6cd1a7291b0508fe14a798e714dff589eda591b5 SHA256: d62e667cb4a01d5b18da501b86a1e60b08f8aa17f16fbf1e343aa159ffa682d0 Homepage: https://drobilla.net/software/lilv/ Description-en: library for simple use of LV2 plugins (development files) Lilv (formerly SLV2) is a library for LV2 hosts intended to make using LV2 Plugins as simple as possible (without sacrificing capabilities).

Lilv is the successor to SLV2, rewritten to be significantly faster and have minimal dependencies.

This package provides the development files.

There are three methods to install liblilv-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 liblilv-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 liblilv-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblilv-dev

Install liblilv-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblilv-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblilv-dev

Install liblilv-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 liblilv-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblilv-dev

How To Uninstall liblilv-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the liblilv-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblilv-dev

Uninstall liblilv-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblilv-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblilv-dev

Remove liblilv-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liblilv-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblilv-dev

Remove liblilv-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblilv-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblilv-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblilv-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.