How To Install libwnck-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwnck-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libwnck-dev
libwnck-dev is:
A library to use for writing pagers and task lists. This variant of libwnck provides WNCK for GTK-2 based applications.
This package contains development files (include headers).
There are three methods to install libwnck-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 libwnck-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 libwnck-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwnck-dev
Install libwnck-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwnck-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwnck-dev
Install libwnck-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 libwnck-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwnck-dev
How To Uninstall libwnck-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libwnck-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwnck-dev
Uninstall libwnck-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwnck-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwnck-dev
Remove libwnck-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libwnck-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwnck-dev
Remove libwnck-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwnck-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwnck-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwnck-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.