How To Install libtermbox1 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtermbox1
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libtermbox1
libtermbox1 is:
Termbox is a library that provides minimalistic API which allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces.
It is based on a very simple abstraction. The main idea is viewing terminals as a table of fixed-size cells and input being a stream of structured messages. Would be fair to say that the model is inspired by windows console API. The abstraction itself is not perfect and it may create problems in certain areas. The most sensitive ones are copy & pasting and wide characters (mostly Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) characters). When it comes to copy & pasting, the notion of cells is not really compatible with the idea of text. And CJK runes often require more than one cell to display them nicely. Despite the mentioned flaws, using such a simple model brings benefits in a form of simplicity. And KISS principle is important.
At this point one should realize, that CLI (command-line interfaces) aren’t really a thing termbox is aimed at. But rather pseudo-graphical user interfaces.
This package ships with shared object.
There are three methods to install libtermbox1
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 libtermbox1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtermbox1
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtermbox1
Install libtermbox1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtermbox1
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtermbox1
Install libtermbox1 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 libtermbox1
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtermbox1
How To Uninstall libtermbox1 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libtermbox1
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtermbox1
Uninstall libtermbox1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtermbox1
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtermbox1
Remove libtermbox1 Configurations and Data
To remove libtermbox1
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtermbox1
Remove libtermbox1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtermbox1
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtermbox1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtermbox1
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.