How To Install libx32ncurses5 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libx32ncurses5
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libx32ncurses5
libx32ncurses5 is:
The ncurses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization.
This package contains the shared libraries necessary to run programs compiled with ncurses.
This package supports the x32 ABI variant of your system’s architecture.
There are three methods to install libx32ncurses5
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 libx32ncurses5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libx32ncurses5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libx32ncurses5
Install libx32ncurses5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libx32ncurses5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libx32ncurses5
Install libx32ncurses5 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 libx32ncurses5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libx32ncurses5
How To Uninstall libx32ncurses5 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libx32ncurses5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libx32ncurses5
Uninstall libx32ncurses5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libx32ncurses5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libx32ncurses5
Remove libx32ncurses5 Configurations and Data
To remove libx32ncurses5
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libx32ncurses5
Remove libx32ncurses5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libx32ncurses5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libx32ncurses5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libx32ncurses5
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.