How To Install aplus-fsf-dev on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aplus-fsf-dev on Ubuntu.
What is aplus-fsf-dev
aplus-fsf-dev is:
A+ is a powerful and efficient programming language. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License. It embodies a rich set of functions and operators, a modern graphical user interface with many widgets and automatic synchronization of widgets and variables, asynchronous execution of functions associated with variables and events, dynamic loading of user compiled subroutines, and many other features. Execution is by a rather efficient interpreter. A+ was created at Morgan Stanley. Primarily used in a computationally-intensive business environment, many critical applications written in A+ have withstood the demands of real world developers over many years. Written in an interpreted language, A+ applications tend to be portable.
This is a metapackage that provides a complete A+ development environment. The A+ run-time environment is provided by the aplus-fsf package.
There are three methods to install aplus-fsf-dev on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install aplus-fsf-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 aplus-fsf-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aplus-fsf-dev
Install aplus-fsf-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aplus-fsf-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aplus-fsf-dev
Install aplus-fsf-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 aplus-fsf-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aplus-fsf-dev
How To Uninstall aplus-fsf-dev on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the aplus-fsf-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aplus-fsf-dev
Uninstall aplus-fsf-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aplus-fsf-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aplus-fsf-dev
Remove aplus-fsf-dev Configurations and Data
To remove aplus-fsf-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aplus-fsf-dev
Remove aplus-fsf-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aplus-fsf-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aplus-fsf-dev
Dependencies
aplus-fsf-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aplus-fsf-dev package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.