How To Install entangle-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install entangle-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04. entangle-dbg is debugging symbols for entangle

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install entangle-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is entangle-dbg

entangle-dbg is:

Entangle provides a graphical interface for “tethered shooting”, aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer.

This package contains the debugging symbols for entangle.

There are three methods to install entangle-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install entangle-dbg Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install entangle-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install entangle-dbg

Install entangle-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install entangle-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install entangle-dbg

Install entangle-dbg 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 entangle-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install entangle-dbg

How To Uninstall entangle-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the entangle-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove entangle-dbg

Uninstall entangle-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall entangle-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove entangle-dbg

Remove entangle-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove entangle-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge entangle-dbg

Remove entangle-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove entangle-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge entangle-dbg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install entangle-dbg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.