How To Install liblog4cplus-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblog4cplus-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04. liblog4cplus-dbg is C++ logging API modeled after the Java log4j API - debug library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblog4cplus-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblog4cplus-dbg

liblog4cplus-dbg is:

log4cplus is a simple to use C++ logging API providing thread-safe, flexible, and arbitrarily granular control over log management and configuration. It is modeled after the Java log4j API.

This package is provided primarily to provide a backtrace with names in a debugger, this makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps. Most people will not need this package.

There are three methods to install liblog4cplus-dbg 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 liblog4cplus-dbg Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblog4cplus-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblog4cplus-dbg

Install liblog4cplus-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblog4cplus-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblog4cplus-dbg

Install liblog4cplus-dbg 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 liblog4cplus-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblog4cplus-dbg

How To Uninstall liblog4cplus-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblog4cplus-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblog4cplus-dbg

Uninstall liblog4cplus-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblog4cplus-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblog4cplus-dbg

Remove liblog4cplus-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove liblog4cplus-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblog4cplus-dbg

Remove liblog4cplus-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblog4cplus-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblog4cplus-dbg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblog4cplus-dbg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.