How To Install libjerasure-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjerasure-dev on Debian 9. libjerasure-dev is forward error correction erasure channel library - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjerasure-dev on Debian 9.

What is libjerasure-dev

libjerasure-dev is:

In information theory, an erasure code is a forward error correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of symbols into a longer message (code word) with symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the symbols.

Jerasure is a shared library that been designed to be modular, fast and flexible. It is used in storage systems such as Swift and Ceph to add fault tolerance.

This package contains the development files needed to build against the shared library.

There are three methods to install libjerasure-dev on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libjerasure-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libjerasure-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libjerasure-dev

Install libjerasure-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libjerasure-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libjerasure-dev

Install libjerasure-dev 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libjerasure-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libjerasure-dev

How To Uninstall libjerasure-dev on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libjerasure-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libjerasure-dev

Uninstall libjerasure-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libjerasure-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjerasure-dev

Remove libjerasure-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libjerasure-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libjerasure-dev

Remove libjerasure-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libjerasure-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjerasure-dev

Dependencies

libjerasure-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjerasure-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.