How To Install emar on Ubuntu 21.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install emscripten

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is emar and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 21.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 21.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install emar on Ubuntu 21.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install emar using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt -y install emscripten

Install emar using apt

Because emar is available in Ubuntu 21.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install emar using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install emscripten

Install emar 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 21.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install emar by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install emscripten

How to upgrade (update) a single package emar using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the emar, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install emscripten

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install emscripten

How To Uninstall emar from Ubuntu 21.04

To uninstall only the emar package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove emscripten

Uninstall emar and all its dependencies

To uninstall emar and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 21.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove emscripten

Remove emar with all configurations and data

To remove emar configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge emscripten

Remove emar completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to emar package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emscripten

Extra info and code examples

Emscripten is an LLVM to JavaScript compiler. It takes LLVM bitcode, also called LLVM IR (which can be generated from C/C++ using Clang, or any other language that can be converted into LLVM bitcode) and compiles that into JavaScript, which can be run on the web (or anywhere else JavaScript can run). Using Emscripten, you can * Compile C and C++ code into JavaScript and run that on the web * Run code in languages like Python as well, by compiling CPython from C to JavaScript and interpreting code in that on the web

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install emar using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the emar from Ubuntu 21.04.

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