How To Install libquazip5-headers on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquazip5-headers on Ubuntu 18.04. libquazip5-headers is C++ wrapper for ZIP/UNZIP (development header files, Qt5 build)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquazip5-headers on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libquazip5-headers

libquazip5-headers is:

QuaZIP is a simple C++ wrapper over Gilles Vollant’s ZIP/UNZIP package that can be used to access ZIP archives. It uses Trolltech’s Qt toolkit.

QuaZIP allows you to access files inside ZIP archives using QIODevice API, and that means that you can also use QTextStream, QDataStream or whatever you would like to use on your zipped files.

QuaZIP provides complete abstraction of the ZIP/UNZIP API, for both reading from and writing to ZIP archives.

This package contains the headers of the Qt5 library.

There are three methods to install libquazip5-headers 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 libquazip5-headers Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libquazip5-headers using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libquazip5-headers

Install libquazip5-headers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libquazip5-headers using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libquazip5-headers

Install libquazip5-headers 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 libquazip5-headers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libquazip5-headers

How To Uninstall libquazip5-headers on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libquazip5-headers package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libquazip5-headers

Uninstall libquazip5-headers And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libquazip5-headers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libquazip5-headers

Remove libquazip5-headers Configurations and Data

To remove libquazip5-headers configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libquazip5-headers

Remove libquazip5-headers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libquazip5-headers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libquazip5-headers

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquazip5-headers package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.