How To Install liblwip-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwip-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblwip-dev
liblwip-dev is:
lwIP is a small independent implementation of the TCP/IPv4/IPv6 protocol suite that has been developed by Adam Dunkels at the Computer and Networks Architectures (CNA) lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS).
The focus of the lwIP TCP/IP implementation is to reduce the RAM usage while still having a full scale TCP. This making lwIP suitable for use in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for around 40 kilobytes of code ROM.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install liblwip-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 liblwip-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 liblwip-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblwip-dev
Install liblwip-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblwip-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblwip-dev
Install liblwip-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 liblwip-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblwip-dev
How To Uninstall liblwip-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblwip-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblwip-dev
Uninstall liblwip-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblwip-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblwip-dev
Remove liblwip-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblwip-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblwip-dev
Remove liblwip-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblwip-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblwip-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwip-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.