How To Install liblzo2-2 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzo2-2 on Debian 9. liblzo2-2 is data compression library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzo2-2 on Debian 9.

What is liblzo2-2

liblzo2-2 is:

LZO is a portable, lossless data compression library. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed.

There are three methods to install liblzo2-2 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 liblzo2-2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblzo2-2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblzo2-2

Install liblzo2-2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblzo2-2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblzo2-2

Install liblzo2-2 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 liblzo2-2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblzo2-2

How To Uninstall liblzo2-2 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the liblzo2-2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblzo2-2

Uninstall liblzo2-2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblzo2-2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblzo2-2

Remove liblzo2-2 Configurations and Data

To remove liblzo2-2 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblzo2-2

Remove liblzo2-2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblzo2-2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblzo2-2

Dependencies

liblzo2-2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzo2-2 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.