How To Install librest-extras-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librest-extras-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is librest-extras-dev
librest-extras-dev is:
This library was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be “RESTful”. It includes convenience wrappers for libsoup and libxml to ease remote use of the RESTful API. This extra package provides Facebook and Flickr support.
This package contains the development headers.
There are three methods to install librest-extras-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 librest-extras-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 librest-extras-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install librest-extras-dev
Install librest-extras-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install librest-extras-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install librest-extras-dev
Install librest-extras-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 librest-extras-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install librest-extras-dev
How To Uninstall librest-extras-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the librest-extras-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove librest-extras-dev
Uninstall librest-extras-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall librest-extras-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librest-extras-dev
Remove librest-extras-dev Configurations and Data
To remove librest-extras-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge librest-extras-dev
Remove librest-extras-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove librest-extras-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librest-extras-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librest-extras-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.