How To Install esnacc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install esnacc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is esnacc
esnacc is:
esnacc is short for “Enhanced Sample Neufeld ASN.1 to C Compiler” and ASN.1 stands for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ITU-T X.208/ISO 8824). esnacc supports a subset of ASN.1 1988.
Given an ASN.1 source file(s) esnacc can produce:
- C routines for BER encoding, decoding, printing and freeing.
- C++ routines for BER encoding, decoding, and printing.
- A type table that can be used with C driver routines for BER encoding, decoding, printing and freeing.
If you want to build esnacc based applications, you want to install the libesnacc-dev package, too. Your application will then depend on the esnacc libraries, you find in the libesnacc180 package.
There are three methods to install esnacc 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 esnacc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install esnacc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install esnacc
Install esnacc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install esnacc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install esnacc
Install esnacc 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 esnacc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install esnacc
How To Uninstall esnacc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the esnacc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove esnacc
Uninstall esnacc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall esnacc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove esnacc
Remove esnacc Configurations and Data
To remove esnacc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge esnacc
Remove esnacc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove esnacc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge esnacc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install esnacc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
