How To Install lex_count on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

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

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

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

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

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 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 lex_count on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 lex_count 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 lex_count using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sloccount

Install lex_count using apt

Because lex_count is available in Ubuntu 22.04’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 lex_count using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sloccount

Install lex_count 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 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install sloccount

How to upgrade (update) a single package lex_count 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 lex_count, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install sloccount

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 sloccount

How To Uninstall lex_count from Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove sloccount

Uninstall lex_count and all its dependencies

To uninstall lex_count and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sloccount

Remove lex_count with all configurations and data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge sloccount

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sloccount

Extra info and code examples

SLOCCount (pronounced "sloc-count") is a suite of programs for counting physical source lines of code (SLOC) in potentially large software systems (thus, SLOCCount is a "software metrics tool" or "software measurement tool"). SLOCCount can count physical SLOC for a wide number of languages; listed alphabetically, they are: Ada, Assembly, awk, Bourne shell, C, C++, C shell, COBOL, C#, Erlang, Expect, Fortran, Java, lex/flex, LISP (including Scheme), Makefile, Modula3, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, sed, SQL, Tcl, VHDL, XML, Yacc/Bison. SLOCCount can automatically determine if a file is a source code file or not, and if so, which language it's written in. As a result, you can analyze large systems completely automatically. SLOCCount also includes some report-generating tools to collect the data generated and present it in several different formats.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install lex_count using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the lex_count from Ubuntu 22.04.

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