How To Install libmtp-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmtp-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmtp-dev
libmtp-dev 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 contains the headers and development libraries.
There are three methods to install libmtp-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 libmtp-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 libmtp-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmtp-dev
Install libmtp-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmtp-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmtp-dev
Install libmtp-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 libmtp-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmtp-dev
How To Uninstall libmtp-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmtp-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmtp-dev
Uninstall libmtp-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmtp-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmtp-dev
Remove libmtp-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmtp-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmtp-dev
Remove libmtp-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmtp-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmtp-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmtp-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.