How To Install libmowgli2-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmowgli2-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04. libmowgli2-dbg is high performance development framework for C (debug)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmowgli2-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libmowgli2-dbg

libmowgli2-dbg is:

Mowgli is a development framework for C (like GLib), which provides high performance and highly flexible algorithms. It can be used as a supplement to GLib (to add additional functions (dictionaries, hashes), or replace some of the slow GLib list manipulation functions), or stand alone. It also provides a powerful hook system and convenient logging for your code, as well as high performance block allocator.

This package contains the debug symbols needed to create meaningful backtraces for applications that use the mowgli library.

There are three methods to install libmowgli2-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 libmowgli2-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 libmowgli2-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmowgli2-dbg

Install libmowgli2-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmowgli2-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmowgli2-dbg

Install libmowgli2-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 libmowgli2-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmowgli2-dbg

How To Uninstall libmowgli2-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libmowgli2-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmowgli2-dbg

Uninstall libmowgli2-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmowgli2-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmowgli2-dbg

Remove libmowgli2-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove libmowgli2-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmowgli2-dbg

Remove libmowgli2-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmowgli2-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmowgli2-dbg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmowgli2-dbg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.