How To Install swig on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swig
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is swig
swig is:
SWIG is a compiler that makes it easy to integrate C and C++ code with other languages including Perl, Tcl, Ruby, Python, Java, Guile, Mzscheme, Chicken, OCaml, Pike, and C#.
Swig takes a set of ANSI C/C++ declarations and generates an interface for them to your favorite scripting language.
This is a dependency package providing the stable version of SWIG.
There are three methods to install swig
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 swig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swig
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swig
Install swig Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swig
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swig
Install swig 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 swig
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swig
How To Uninstall swig on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the swig
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swig
Uninstall swig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swig
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swig
Remove swig Configurations and Data
To remove swig
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swig
Remove swig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swig
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swig
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swig
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.