How To Install libplib-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libplib-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libplib-doc
libplib-doc is:
The Portability Libraries plib provide a Joystick interface, a simple GUI built on top of OpenGL, some standard geometry functions, a sound library and a simple scene graph API built on top of OpenGL.
This package contains HTML documentation and examples for plib. The documentation is a copy of the documentation which can be found online at http://plib.sourceforge.net/
There are three methods to install libplib-doc 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 libplib-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 libplib-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libplib-doc
Install libplib-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libplib-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libplib-doc
Install libplib-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 libplib-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libplib-doc
How To Uninstall libplib-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libplib-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libplib-doc
Uninstall libplib-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libplib-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libplib-doc
Remove libplib-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libplib-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libplib-doc
Remove libplib-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libplib-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libplib-doc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libplib-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.