How To Install librgxg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librgxg-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is librgxg-dev
librgxg-dev is:
librgxg is a C library to generate (extended) regular expressions.
It can be useful to generate (extended) regular expressions to match for instance a specific number range (e.g. 0 to 31 or 00 to FF) or all addresses of a CIDR block (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 or 2001:db8:aaaa::/64).
This package contains the development files (i.e. includes, static library, manual pages) that allow one to build software which uses librgxg.
There are three methods to install librgxg-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 librgxg-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 librgxg-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install librgxg-dev
Install librgxg-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install librgxg-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install librgxg-dev
Install librgxg-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 librgxg-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install librgxg-dev
How To Uninstall librgxg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the librgxg-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove librgxg-dev
Uninstall librgxg-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall librgxg-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librgxg-dev
Remove librgxg-dev Configurations and Data
To remove librgxg-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge librgxg-dev
Remove librgxg-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove librgxg-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librgxg-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librgxg-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.