How To Install skalibs-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install skalibs-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is skalibs-dev
skalibs-dev is:
skalibs is a package centralizing the free software / open source C development files used for building all software at skarnet.org: it contains essentially general-purpose libraries. You will need to install skalibs if you plan to build skarnet.org software. The point is that you won’t have to download and compile big libraries, and care about portability issues, every time you need to build a package: do it only once.
skalibs can also be used as a sound basic start for C development. There are a lot of general-purpose libraries out there; but if your main goal is to produce small and secure C code with a focus on system programming, skalibs might be for you.
This package contains static and header files.
There are three methods to install skalibs-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 skalibs-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 skalibs-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install skalibs-dev
Install skalibs-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install skalibs-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install skalibs-dev
Install skalibs-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 skalibs-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skalibs-dev
How To Uninstall skalibs-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the skalibs-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove skalibs-dev
Uninstall skalibs-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall skalibs-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skalibs-dev
Remove skalibs-dev Configurations and Data
To remove skalibs-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge skalibs-dev
Remove skalibs-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove skalibs-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skalibs-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skalibs-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.