How To Install libqrcodegen-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libqrcodegen-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libqrcodegen-dev
libqrcodegen-dev is:
This project aims to be the best, clearest QR Code generator library in multiple languages. The primary goals are flexible options and absolute correctness. Secondary goals are compact implementation size and good documentation comments. Core features:
- Available in 7 programming languages, all with nearly equal functionality: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C++, C, Rust
- Significantly shorter code but more documentation comments compared to competing libraries
- Supports encoding all 40 versions (sizes) and all 4 error correction levels, as per the QR Code Model 2 standard
- Output formats: Raw modules/pixels of the QR symbol (all languages), SVG XML string (all languages except C), BufferedImage raster bitmap (Java only), HTML5 canvas (JavaScript and TypeScript only)
- Encodes numeric and special-alphanumeric text in less space than general text
- Open source code under the permissive MIT License
This package contains the development files in C.
There are three methods to install libqrcodegen-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libqrcodegen-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 libqrcodegen-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libqrcodegen-dev
Install libqrcodegen-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libqrcodegen-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libqrcodegen-dev
Install libqrcodegen-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 libqrcodegen-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libqrcodegen-dev
How To Uninstall libqrcodegen-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libqrcodegen-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libqrcodegen-dev
Uninstall libqrcodegen-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libqrcodegen-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libqrcodegen-dev
Remove libqrcodegen-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libqrcodegen-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libqrcodegen-dev
Remove libqrcodegen-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libqrcodegen-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libqrcodegen-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libqrcodegen-dev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.