How To Install omniidl on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install omniidl
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is omniidl
omniidl is:
omniORB4 is a freely available Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) 2.6 compliant object request broker (ORB) implementation. It is based on the IIOP communications protocol and should be interoperable with any other CORBA 2.6 compliant ORB.
This includes the idl compiler.
There are three methods to install omniidl
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 omniidl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install omniidl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install omniidl
Install omniidl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install omniidl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install omniidl
Install omniidl 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 omniidl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install omniidl
How To Uninstall omniidl on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the omniidl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove omniidl
Uninstall omniidl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall omniidl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove omniidl
Remove omniidl Configurations and Data
To remove omniidl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge omniidl
Remove omniidl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove omniidl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge omniidl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install omniidl
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.