How To Install libmsi0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmsi0
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmsi0
libmsi0 is:
libmsi provides functions to manipulate Windows Installer (.msi) files, both for reading and writing their contents and querying their databases.
This package contains the runtime library.
There are three methods to install libmsi0
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 libmsi0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmsi0
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmsi0
Install libmsi0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmsi0
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmsi0
Install libmsi0 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 libmsi0
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmsi0
How To Uninstall libmsi0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmsi0
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmsi0
Uninstall libmsi0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmsi0
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmsi0
Remove libmsi0 Configurations and Data
To remove libmsi0
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmsi0
Remove libmsi0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmsi0
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmsi0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmsi0
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.