How To Install libu2f-host-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libu2f-host-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libu2f-host-dev
libu2f-host-dev is:
Libu2f is a package for doing Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) host communication and has functionality for the Registration and Authentication operations. The package contains a C library, a command line tool, and documentation.
This package contains development files for the libu2f-host library.
There are three methods to install libu2f-host-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 libu2f-host-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 libu2f-host-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libu2f-host-dev
Install libu2f-host-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libu2f-host-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libu2f-host-dev
Install libu2f-host-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 libu2f-host-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libu2f-host-dev
How To Uninstall libu2f-host-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libu2f-host-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libu2f-host-dev
Uninstall libu2f-host-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libu2f-host-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libu2f-host-dev
Remove libu2f-host-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libu2f-host-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libu2f-host-dev
Remove libu2f-host-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libu2f-host-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libu2f-host-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libu2f-host-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.