How To Install m17n-lib-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-lib-bin on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is m17n-lib-bin
m17n-lib-bin is:
The m17n library is a multilingual text processing library for the C language. This library has following features:
- The m17n library is an open source software.
- The m17n library for any Linux/Unix applications.
- The m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of applications.
- The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text. M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any information required to input, display and edit the text.
- The m17n library supports functions to handle M-texts.
m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.
This package contains the utilities which use m17n-lib.
There are three methods to install m17n-lib-bin 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 m17n-lib-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install m17n-lib-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install m17n-lib-bin
Install m17n-lib-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install m17n-lib-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install m17n-lib-bin
Install m17n-lib-bin 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 m17n-lib-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install m17n-lib-bin
How To Uninstall m17n-lib-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the m17n-lib-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove m17n-lib-bin
Uninstall m17n-lib-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall m17n-lib-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove m17n-lib-bin
Remove m17n-lib-bin Configurations and Data
To remove m17n-lib-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge m17n-lib-bin
Remove m17n-lib-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove m17n-lib-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge m17n-lib-bin
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install m17n-lib-bin package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
