How To Install liburfkill-glib-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburfkill-glib-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. liburfkill-glib-dev is wireless killswitch management library (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburfkill-glib-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liburfkill-glib-dev

liburfkill-glib-dev is:

liburfkill provides the basic functions for urfkilld, which handles the configuration of the rfkill-related function keys and provides the management of the wireless killswitches.

This package contains development files for the urfkill library.

There are three methods to install liburfkill-glib-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 liburfkill-glib-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 liburfkill-glib-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liburfkill-glib-dev

Install liburfkill-glib-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liburfkill-glib-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liburfkill-glib-dev

Install liburfkill-glib-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 liburfkill-glib-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liburfkill-glib-dev

How To Uninstall liburfkill-glib-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liburfkill-glib-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liburfkill-glib-dev

Uninstall liburfkill-glib-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liburfkill-glib-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liburfkill-glib-dev

Remove liburfkill-glib-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liburfkill-glib-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liburfkill-glib-dev

Remove liburfkill-glib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liburfkill-glib-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liburfkill-glib-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburfkill-glib-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.