How To Install libwebsockets8 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebsockets8
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libwebsockets8
libwebsockets8 is:
Libwebsockets is a lightweight pure C library for both websockets clients and servers built to use minimal CPU and memory resources and provide fast throughput in both directions.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libwebsockets8
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 libwebsockets8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libwebsockets8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwebsockets8
Install libwebsockets8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwebsockets8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwebsockets8
Install libwebsockets8 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 libwebsockets8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwebsockets8
How To Uninstall libwebsockets8 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libwebsockets8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwebsockets8
Uninstall libwebsockets8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwebsockets8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwebsockets8
Remove libwebsockets8 Configurations and Data
To remove libwebsockets8
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwebsockets8
Remove libwebsockets8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwebsockets8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwebsockets8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebsockets8
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.