How To Install libtextwrap-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtextwrap-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libtextwrap-dev
libtextwrap-dev is:
Text-wrapping (or line-folding) library for displaying a string on the terminal. This supports i18n (internationalization), i.e, automatic locale-encoding detection, multibyte encoding (such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, and so on), fullwidth characters (occupying two columns per one character, like CJK Ideogram), combining characters (occupying zero columns per one character, like Thai and diacritical marks), and languages which do not use whitespaces between words (like Chinese and Japanese).
This package contains files needed for development using this library.
There are three methods to install libtextwrap-dev 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 libtextwrap-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 libtextwrap-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtextwrap-dev
Install libtextwrap-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtextwrap-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtextwrap-dev
Install libtextwrap-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 libtextwrap-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtextwrap-dev
How To Uninstall libtextwrap-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libtextwrap-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtextwrap-dev
Uninstall libtextwrap-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtextwrap-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtextwrap-dev
Remove libtextwrap-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libtextwrap-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtextwrap-dev
Remove libtextwrap-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtextwrap-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtextwrap-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtextwrap-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
