How To Install multiarch-support on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multiarch-support on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is multiarch-support
multiarch-support is:
This is a transitional package used to ensure multiarch support is present in ld.so before unpacking libraries to the multiarch directories. It can be removed once nothing on the system depends on it.
There are three methods to install multiarch-support 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 multiarch-support Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install multiarch-support using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install multiarch-support
Install multiarch-support Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install multiarch-support using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install multiarch-support
Install multiarch-support 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 multiarch-support using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install multiarch-support
How To Uninstall multiarch-support on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the multiarch-support package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove multiarch-support
Uninstall multiarch-support And Its Dependencies
To uninstall multiarch-support and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove multiarch-support
Remove multiarch-support Configurations and Data
To remove multiarch-support configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge multiarch-support
Remove multiarch-support configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove multiarch-support configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multiarch-support
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multiarch-support package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
