How To Install libnaga-java on Debian 10

Learn how to install libnaga-java on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libnaga-java is Simplified Java NIO asynchronous sockets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnaga-java on Debian 10.

What is libnaga-java

libnaga-java is:

Naga aims to be a very small NIO library that provides a handful of java classes to wrap the usual Socket and ServerSocket with asynchronous NIO counterparts.

All of this is driven from a single thread, making it useful for both client (e.g. allowing I/O to be done in the AWT-thread without any need for threads) and server programming (1 thread for all connections instead of 2 threads/connection).

Naga contains the code needed to get NIO up and running without having to code partially read buffers and setting various selection key flags.

There are three methods to install libnaga-java 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 libnaga-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libnaga-java

Install libnaga-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libnaga-java

Install libnaga-java 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 libnaga-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnaga-java

How To Uninstall libnaga-java on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libnaga-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnaga-java

Uninstall libnaga-java And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnaga-java

Remove libnaga-java Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libnaga-java

Remove libnaga-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnaga-java

Dependencies

libnaga-java have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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