How To Install liblwipv6-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwipv6-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblwipv6-dev
liblwipv6-dev is:
LWIPv6 is a user level TCP/IP stack with the following features:
Physical layer: ARP support, TUN/TAP/VDE drivers support.
Network layer: IP forwarding, fragmentation, NAT, IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, Router Advertising support.
Transport layer: TCP: congestion control, RTT estimation, fast recovery, fast retransmit; UDP.
Berkeley Socket API: Protocol families PF_INET, PF_INET6, PF_PACKET, partial PF_NETLINK support; Socket types SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM, SOCK_RAW support.
LWIPv6 is used, for instance, by a UMView module to support user level networking and configuration, usually together with VDE.
LWIPv6, along with UMView, is part of the View-OS project: http://wiki.virtualsquare.org
This package contains the files needed to compile applications that link LWIPv6.
There are three methods to install liblwipv6-dev 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 liblwipv6-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 liblwipv6-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblwipv6-dev
Install liblwipv6-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblwipv6-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblwipv6-dev
Install liblwipv6-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 liblwipv6-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblwipv6-dev
How To Uninstall liblwipv6-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblwipv6-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblwipv6-dev
Uninstall liblwipv6-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblwipv6-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblwipv6-dev
Remove liblwipv6-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblwipv6-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblwipv6-dev
Remove liblwipv6-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblwipv6-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblwipv6-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwipv6-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
