How To Install soong 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 soong on Ubuntu.
What is soong
soong is:
Soong is a build system for Android built on top of Blueprint, a meta-build system. Soong is the replacement for the old Android make-based build system. It replaces Android.mk files with Android.bp files, which are JSON-like simple declarative descriptions of modules to build.
This package contains command-line tools for Soong.
There are three methods to install soong 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 soong Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install soong using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install soong
Install soong Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install soong using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install soong
Install soong 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 soong using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install soong
How To Uninstall soong on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the soong package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove soong
Uninstall soong And Its Dependencies
To uninstall soong and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove soong
Remove soong Configurations and Data
To remove soong configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge soong
Remove soong configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove soong configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge soong
Dependencies
soong have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install soong package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.