Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aidl on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is aidl
aidl is:
aidl is a utility to generate Java and/or C++ code from Android’s
Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL). AIDL is similar to
other IDLs you might have worked with. It allows you to define the
programming interface that both the client and service agree upon in
order to communicate with each other using interprocess communication
(IPC). On Android, one process cannot normally access the memory of
another process. So to talk, they need to decompose their objects
into primitives that the operating system can understand, and
marshall the objects across that boundary for you. The code to do
that marshalling is tedious to write, so Android handles it for you
with AIDL. This package provides two tools:
- “aidl†which generates Java bindings.
- “aidl-cpp†which generates C++ bindings.
For more info, see:
https://developer.android.com/guide/components/aidl.html
There are three methods to install aidl on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install aidl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aidl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aidl
Install aidl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aidl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aidl
Install aidl 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 aidl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aidl
How To Uninstall aidl on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the aidl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aidl
Uninstall aidl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aidl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aidl
Remove aidl Configurations and Data
To remove aidl configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aidl
Remove aidl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aidl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aidl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aidl package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
