How To Install libserialport-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libserialport-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libserialport-dev
libserialport-dev is:
libserialport is a minimal, cross-platform shared library that is intended to take care of the OS-specific details when writing software that uses serial ports.
This package contains the header files and other development files.
There are three methods to install libserialport-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 libserialport-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 libserialport-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libserialport-dev
Install libserialport-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libserialport-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libserialport-dev
Install libserialport-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 libserialport-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libserialport-dev
How To Uninstall libserialport-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libserialport-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libserialport-dev
Uninstall libserialport-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libserialport-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libserialport-dev
Remove libserialport-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libserialport-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libserialport-dev
Remove libserialport-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libserialport-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libserialport-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libserialport-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.