How To Install libipaddr-ocaml 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 libipaddr-ocaml on Ubuntu.

What is `libipaddr-ocaml`

libipaddr-ocaml is:

This is a library for manipulation of IP (and MAC) address representations.

Features:

IPv4 and IPv6 support
IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR prefix support
IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR-scoped address support
Integration with the standard OCaml distribution (Map.OrderedType, Unix, top-level)
IP address scope classification
IPv4-mapped addresses in IPv6 (::ffff:0:0/96) are an embedding of IPv4
MAC-48 (Ethernet) address support
All types have sexplib serializers/deserializers

This package contains the shared runtime libraries.

There are three methods to install libipaddr-ocaml 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 libipaddr-ocaml Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libipaddr-ocaml using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libipaddr-ocaml

Install libipaddr-ocaml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libipaddr-ocaml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libipaddr-ocaml

Install libipaddr-ocaml 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 libipaddr-ocaml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libipaddr-ocaml

How To Uninstall libipaddr-ocaml on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libipaddr-ocaml package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libipaddr-ocaml

Uninstall libipaddr-ocaml And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libipaddr-ocaml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libipaddr-ocaml

Remove libipaddr-ocaml Configurations and Data

To remove libipaddr-ocaml configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libipaddr-ocaml

Remove libipaddr-ocaml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libipaddr-ocaml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libipaddr-ocaml

Dependencies

libipaddr-ocaml have the following dependencies:

References

libipaddr-ocaml website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libipaddr-ocaml package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.