How To Install liblouis14 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis14
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblouis14
liblouis14 is:
Liblouis is a braille translator and back-translator. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg).
This package contains shared libraries.
There are three methods to install liblouis14
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 liblouis14 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouis14
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblouis14
Install liblouis14 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouis14
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblouis14
Install liblouis14 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 liblouis14
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblouis14
How To Uninstall liblouis14 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblouis14
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblouis14
Uninstall liblouis14 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblouis14
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblouis14
Remove liblouis14 Configurations and Data
To remove liblouis14
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblouis14
Remove liblouis14 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblouis14
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblouis14
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis14
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.