How To Install liblouis-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblouis-dev
liblouis-dev is:
Liblouis is a braille translator and back-translator. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg).
This package contains static libraries and development headers.
There are three methods to install liblouis-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 liblouis-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 liblouis-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblouis-dev
Install liblouis-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblouis-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblouis-dev
Install liblouis-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 liblouis-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblouis-dev
How To Uninstall liblouis-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblouis-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblouis-dev
Uninstall liblouis-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblouis-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblouis-dev
Remove liblouis-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblouis-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblouis-dev
Remove liblouis-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblouis-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblouis-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblouis-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
