How To Install iwyu on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iwyu on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is iwyu
iwyu is:
“Include what you use” means this: for every symbol (type, function variable, or macro) that you use in foo.cc, either foo.cc or foo.h should #include a .h file that exports the declaration of that symbol. The include-what-you-use tool is a program that can be built with the clang libraries in order to analyze #includes of source files to find include-what-you-use violations, and suggest fixes for them.
The main goal of include-what-you-use is to remove superfluous #includes. It does this both by figuring out what #includes are not actually needed for this file (for both .cc and .h files), and replacing #includes with forward-declares when possible.
There are three methods to install iwyu 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 iwyu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iwyu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iwyu
Install iwyu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iwyu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iwyu
Install iwyu 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 iwyu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iwyu
How To Uninstall iwyu on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the iwyu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iwyu
Uninstall iwyu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iwyu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iwyu
Remove iwyu Configurations and Data
To remove iwyu configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iwyu
Remove iwyu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iwyu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iwyu
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iwyu package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
