How To Install libucommon8 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libucommon8 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libucommon8
libucommon8 is:
GNU uCommon C++ is a lightweight library to facilitate using C++ design patterns even for very deeply embedded applications, such as for systems using uClibc along with POSIX threading support. For this reason, uCommon disables language features that consume memory or introduce runtime overhead. uCommon introduces some design patterns from Objective-C, such as reference counted objects, memory pools, and smart pointers. uCommon introduces some new concepts for handling of thread locking and synchronization.
This package contains the shared libraries.
There are three methods to install libucommon8 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 libucommon8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libucommon8 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libucommon8
Install libucommon8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libucommon8 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libucommon8
Install libucommon8 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 libucommon8 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libucommon8
How To Uninstall libucommon8 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libucommon8 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libucommon8
Uninstall libucommon8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libucommon8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libucommon8
Remove libucommon8 Configurations and Data
To remove libucommon8 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libucommon8
Remove libucommon8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libucommon8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libucommon8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libucommon8 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
