How To Install uncrustify on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uncrustify
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is uncrustify
uncrustify is:
Uncrustify is a highly configurable source code formatter. It aligns preprocessor define’s, assignments, arithmetics and is able to fix spacing between operators.
There are three methods to install uncrustify
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 uncrustify Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install uncrustify
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install uncrustify
Install uncrustify Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install uncrustify
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install uncrustify
Install uncrustify 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 uncrustify
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install uncrustify
How To Uninstall uncrustify on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the uncrustify
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove uncrustify
Uninstall uncrustify And Its Dependencies
To uninstall uncrustify
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove uncrustify
Remove uncrustify Configurations and Data
To remove uncrustify
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge uncrustify
Remove uncrustify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove uncrustify
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uncrustify
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uncrustify
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.