How To Install liblxc-common on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-common on Ubuntu 20.04. liblxc-common is Linux Containers userspace tools (common tools) Linux Containers userspace tools (common tools)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-common on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is liblxc-common

liblxc-common is:

Containers are insulated areas inside a system, which have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, IPC, CPU and memory allocation and which can be created using the Control Group and Namespace features included in the Linux kernel.

This package contains a few binaries and security profiles required by all liblxc users.

Package: liblxc-common Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: lxc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1587 Provides: lxc-common Depends: liblxc1 (= 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1) Conflicts: lxc-common Breaks: lxc-templates (« 3.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu1~), lxc-utils (« 1:4.0.0-0ubuntu1~), lxc1 (« 3.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu2~) Replaces: lxc-common, lxc-templates (« 3.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu1~), lxc-utils (« 1:4.0.0-0ubuntu1~), lxc1 (« 3.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu2~) Filename: pool/universe/l/lxc/liblxc-common_4.0.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 460664 MD5sum: 618d0240ec0c0d8b91589bf8e2062a37 SHA1: 1cd93f77a379fd971174fa71e8744a6b52262cdd SHA256: 99db7bdfb049ec740a63feb88253d644306b1a32e36d54311c78223835e15253 Homepage: https://linuxcontainers.org Description-en: Linux Containers userspace tools (common tools) Containers are insulated areas inside a system, which have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, IPC, CPU and memory allocation and which can be created using the Control Group and Namespace features included in the Linux kernel.

This package contains a few binaries and security profiles required by all liblxc users.

There are three methods to install liblxc-common 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 liblxc-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblxc-common

Install liblxc-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblxc-common

Install liblxc-common 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 liblxc-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblxc-common

How To Uninstall liblxc-common on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the liblxc-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblxc-common

Uninstall liblxc-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblxc-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblxc-common

Remove liblxc-common Configurations and Data

To remove liblxc-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblxc-common

Remove liblxc-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblxc-common

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.