How To Install libmpdclient-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpdclient-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. libmpdclient-doc is client library for the Music Player Daemon (API documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpdclient-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libmpdclient-doc

libmpdclient-doc is:

libmpdclient provides an API for interfacing the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It offers a low-level asynchronous API which knowns the MPD protocol syntax as well as a higher level synchronous API implementing the MPD commands and parsing all responses.

This package contains the API documentation.

There are three methods to install libmpdclient-doc 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 libmpdclient-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmpdclient-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmpdclient-doc

Install libmpdclient-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libmpdclient-doc

Install libmpdclient-doc 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 libmpdclient-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmpdclient-doc

How To Uninstall libmpdclient-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libmpdclient-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmpdclient-doc

Uninstall libmpdclient-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmpdclient-doc

Remove libmpdclient-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libmpdclient-doc

Remove libmpdclient-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmpdclient-doc

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Summary

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