How To Install libevdev-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. libevdev-dev is wrapper library for evdev devices - development files wrapper library for evdev devices - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libevdev-dev

libevdev-dev is:

libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. It provides functions covering the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls and other errors.

This package contains the files required to build software using libevdev.

Package: libevdev-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.9.0+dfsg-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: extra Section: libdevel Source: libevdev Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Stephen Kitt [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 279 Depends: libevdev2 (= 1.9.0+dfsg-1) Suggests: libevdev-doc Filename: pool/main/libe/libevdev/libevdev-dev_1.9.0+dfsg-1_amd64.deb Size: 48640 MD5sum: cc29bdec4fc3f657707afc9bc2487b2c SHA1: 07f80f2b18525240c0da1fee96fbdf8dd0c18157 SHA256: 72b01a01545583486b6a47dd6215fecf302f1d7aa4ba5777b90682ef26dfe4fb Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libevdev/ Description-en: wrapper library for evdev devices - development files libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. It provides functions covering the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls and other errors.

This package contains the files required to build software using libevdev.

There are three methods to install libevdev-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 libevdev-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 libevdev-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libevdev-dev

Install libevdev-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libevdev-dev

Install libevdev-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 libevdev-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libevdev-dev

How To Uninstall libevdev-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libevdev-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libevdev-dev

Uninstall libevdev-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libevdev-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libevdev-dev

Remove libevdev-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libevdev-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libevdev-dev

Remove libevdev-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libevdev-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libevdev-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.