How To Install libcfg7 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfg7 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcfg7
libcfg7 is:
The Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications. The project provides four C Application Programming Interface features:
- A closed process group communication model with virtual synchrony guarantees for creating replicated state machines.
- A simple availability manager that restarts the application process when it has failed.
- A configuration and statistics in-memory database that provide the ability to set, retrieve, and receive change notifications of information.
- A quorum system that notifies applications when quorum is achieved or lost.
This package contains the CFG library.
Package: libcfg7 Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.0.3-2ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs Source: corosync Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian HA Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 50 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcorosync-common4 (>= 1.99.9), libqb0 (>= 1.0.3) Filename: pool/main/c/corosync/libcfg7_3.0.3-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 7896 MD5sum: 44c42a56b6160d82812ef5bb70683537 SHA1: 32516562165f9ff637df4f650e143a21f5927915 SHA256: 64e3d93da8c8b31428473bbf8e50c70d4aa01d1a82391c5b561a3561ffd3ba96 Homepage: https://corosync.github.io/corosync/ Description-en: cluster engine CFG library The Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications. The project provides four C Application Programming Interface features:
- A closed process group communication model with virtual synchrony guarantees for creating replicated state machines.
- A simple availability manager that restarts the application process when it has failed.
- A configuration and statistics in-memory database that provide the ability to set, retrieve, and receive change notifications of information.
- A quorum system that notifies applications when quorum is achieved or lost.
This package contains the CFG library.
There are three methods to install libcfg7 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcfg7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfg7 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcfg7
Install libcfg7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfg7 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcfg7
Install libcfg7 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 libcfg7 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcfg7
How To Uninstall libcfg7 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcfg7 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcfg7
Uninstall libcfg7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcfg7 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcfg7
Remove libcfg7 Configurations and Data
To remove libcfg7 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcfg7
Remove libcfg7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcfg7 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcfg7
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfg7 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
