How To Install libmawk-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmawk-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmawk-dev
libmawk-dev is:
Libmawk is a fork of the popular awk implementation mawk, and aims to be the lightweight script language programmers embed in their application.
This package constains all header files to allow applications to compile with embedded awk scripting.
There are three methods to install libmawk-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 libmawk-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 libmawk-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmawk-dev
Install libmawk-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmawk-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmawk-dev
Install libmawk-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 libmawk-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmawk-dev
How To Uninstall libmawk-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmawk-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmawk-dev
Uninstall libmawk-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmawk-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmawk-dev
Remove libmawk-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmawk-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmawk-dev
Remove libmawk-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmawk-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmawk-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmawk-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.