How To Install libwings3 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 libwings3 on Ubuntu.

What is `libwings3`

libwings3 is:

WINGs Is Not GNUstep (WINGs) is a small widget set with the NeXTSTEP look and feel. Its API is inspired in OpenSTEP and its implementation borrows some ideas from Tk. It has a reasonable set of widgets, sufficient for building small applications like a CDPlayer or hacking something like rxvt. It is used for basic widgets in the WindowMaker window manager.

This package contains the libWINGs runtime library.

There are three methods to install libwings3 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 libwings3 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libwings3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libwings3

Install libwings3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libwings3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libwings3

Install libwings3 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 libwings3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libwings3

How To Uninstall libwings3 on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libwings3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libwings3

Uninstall libwings3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libwings3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwings3

Remove libwings3 Configurations and Data

To remove libwings3 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libwings3

Remove libwings3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libwings3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwings3

Dependencies

libwings3 have the following dependencies:

References

libwings3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwings3 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.