How To Install googletest 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 googletest on Ubuntu.
What is googletest
googletest is:
This package provides sources for Google Test and Google Mock.
Google Test is a framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms. Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, value- and type-parameterized tests, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation.
Google Mock is an extension of Google Test for C++ mocking. Inspired by jMock, EasyMock, and Hamcrest, and designed with C++’s specifics in mind, it can help you derive better designs of your system and write better tests.
Google Mock:
- provides a declarative syntax for defining mocks,
- can easily define partial (hybrid) mocks, which are a cross of real and mock objects,
- handles functions of arbitrary types and overloaded functions,
- comes with a rich set of matchers for validating function arguments,
- uses an intuitive syntax for controlling the behavior of a mock,
- does automatic verification of expectations (no record-and-replay needed),
- allows arbitrary (partial) ordering constraints on function calls to be expressed,
- lets a user extend it by defining new matchers and actions.
- does not use exceptions, and
- is easy to learn and use.
NOTE: This package does not contain a library to link against, but rather the source code to build the google test and mock libraries. This enables building the google test and mock libraries with the same flags as the C++ code under test.
There are three methods to install googletest 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 googletest Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install googletest using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install googletest
Install googletest Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install googletest using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install googletest
Install googletest 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 googletest using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install googletest
How To Uninstall googletest on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the googletest package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove googletest
Uninstall googletest And Its Dependencies
To uninstall googletest and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove googletest
Remove googletest Configurations and Data
To remove googletest configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge googletest
Remove googletest configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove googletest configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge googletest
Dependencies
googletest have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install googletest package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.