How To Install mzclient on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mzclient on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mzclient
mzclient is:
Mono.Zeroconf is a cross platform Zero Configuration Networking library for Mono and .NET. It provides a unified API for performing the most common zeroconf operations on a variety of platforms and subsystems: all the operating systems supported by Mono and both the Avahi and Bonjour/mDNSResponder transports.
By using Mono.ZeroConf applications can use a single API that will work regardless of the underlying implementation that a particular operating system uses.
Applications can publish services that will be exposed to other computers on the network and also query the local machines on the network for services that could have been exposed.
This package contains the mzclient tool, that can be used for resolving or publishing services from the commandline.
There are three methods to install mzclient on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mzclient Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mzclient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mzclient
Install mzclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mzclient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mzclient
Install mzclient 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 mzclient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mzclient
How To Uninstall mzclient on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mzclient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mzclient
Uninstall mzclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mzclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mzclient
Remove mzclient Configurations and Data
To remove mzclient configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mzclient
Remove mzclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mzclient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mzclient
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mzclient package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
