How To Install libmx-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmx-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. libmx-doc is toolkit for the Moblin user experience (documentation)

Introduction

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

What is libmx-doc

libmx-doc is:

The MX toolkit is a GUI toolkit library, using Clutter and is optimized for the Moblin user experience. It consists of various classes useful for building UIs such as Buttons, Tooltips, Scrollbars and others. It also supports styling through CSS stylesheets.

This package contains the documentation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmx-doc

Install libmx-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libmx-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install libmx-doc

How To Uninstall libmx-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove libmx-doc

Uninstall libmx-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmx-doc

Remove libmx-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libmx-doc

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

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

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

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Summary

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