How To Install liblzf-dev on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf-dev on Debian 11. liblzf-dev is Very small data compression library - development headers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf-dev on Debian 11.

What is liblzf-dev

liblzf-dev is:

This library implements the very, very fast LZF compression algorithm written in C. Compression ratios are moderate with 40 to 50 percent for typical binary data, but decompression speed is basically at unoptimized memcpy speed.

This package installs the necessary files to develop and link against the library.

There are three methods to install liblzf-dev on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblzf-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 liblzf-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblzf-dev

Install liblzf-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblzf-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install liblzf-dev

How To Uninstall liblzf-dev on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove liblzf-dev

Uninstall liblzf-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblzf-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblzf-dev

Remove liblzf-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liblzf-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblzf-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

liblzf-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.