How To Install liblz4-1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-1 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblz4-1
liblz4-1 is:
LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.
This package includes the shared library. Task: minimal
Package: liblz4-1 Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.9.2-2 Multi-Arch: same Priority: required Section: libs Source: lz4 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 149 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Breaks: liblz4-1a Replaces: liblz4-1a Filename: pool/main/l/lz4/liblz4-1_1.9.2-2_amd64.deb Size: 55928 MD5sum: c5521a46b5316f1ac5b8fff8add21d9d SHA1: 513f36bea2920a4d778a434ca63804ec58576be7 SHA256: 8e30993d269be2b82b4fef4d1c097cb27ab09f67352685bbb652cb176214144c Homepage: https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4 Description-en: Fast LZ compression algorithm library - runtime LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.
This package includes the shared library. Task: minimal
There are three methods to install liblz4-1 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 liblz4-1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblz4-1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblz4-1
Install liblz4-1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblz4-1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblz4-1
Install liblz4-1 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 liblz4-1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblz4-1
How To Uninstall liblz4-1 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblz4-1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblz4-1
Uninstall liblz4-1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblz4-1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblz4-1
Remove liblz4-1 Configurations and Data
To remove liblz4-1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblz4-1
Remove liblz4-1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblz4-1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblz4-1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-1 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
