How To Install network-manager-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is network-manager-dev
network-manager-dev is:
This package provides documentation of the NetworkManager D-Bus API, the configuration formats and command line utilities. It also provides D-Bus introspection files.
Package: network-manager-dev Architecture: all Version: 1.22.10-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: net Source: network-manager Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2095 Filename: pool/main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_1.22.10-1ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 176248 MD5sum: 77ea093b9101936ea0aef0bc26596601 SHA1: 30a8ed24217bfb312f4f546cce191ba37252b316 SHA256: 49fc4c54d2975bd7cb84131c831e1e6c2a42034f7d859b0b4a8ac061bb1d33d4 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager Description-en: network management framework (development files) This package provides documentation of the NetworkManager D-Bus API, the configuration formats and command line utilities. It also provides D-Bus introspection files.
There are three methods to install network-manager-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 network-manager-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 network-manager-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install network-manager-dev
Install network-manager-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install network-manager-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install network-manager-dev
Install network-manager-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 network-manager-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install network-manager-dev
How To Uninstall network-manager-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the network-manager-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove network-manager-dev
Uninstall network-manager-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall network-manager-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove network-manager-dev
Remove network-manager-dev Configurations and Data
To remove network-manager-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge network-manager-dev
Remove network-manager-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove network-manager-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge network-manager-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install network-manager-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.