How To Install liblz4-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install liblz4-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. liblz4-dev is Fast LZ compression algorithm library - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-dev on Debian 10.

What is liblz4-dev

liblz4-dev 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 contains files that are needed to build applications.

There are three methods to install liblz4-dev on Debian 10. 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-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 liblz4-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblz4-dev

Install liblz4-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblz4-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblz4-dev

Install liblz4-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 liblz4-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblz4-dev

How To Uninstall liblz4-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the liblz4-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblz4-dev

Uninstall liblz4-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblz4-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblz4-dev

Remove liblz4-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liblz4-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblz4-dev

Remove liblz4-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblz4-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblz4-dev

Dependencies

liblz4-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.