How To Install libmtp-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmtp-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmtp-common
libmtp-common is:
libmtp is a library for communicating with MTP aware devices in POSIX compliant operating systems. It implements MTP Basic, the subset proposed for standardization.
The Media Transfer Protocol (commonly referred to as MTP) is a devised set of custom extensions to support the transfer of music files on USB digital audio players and movie files on USB portable media players.
This package provides the udev rules file and the FreeDesktop.org Device Information Files file (used by HAL).
There are three methods to install libmtp-common 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 libmtp-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmtp-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmtp-common
Install libmtp-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmtp-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmtp-common
Install libmtp-common 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 libmtp-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmtp-common
How To Uninstall libmtp-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmtp-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmtp-common
Uninstall libmtp-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmtp-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmtp-common
Remove libmtp-common Configurations and Data
To remove libmtp-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmtp-common
Remove libmtp-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmtp-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmtp-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmtp-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
