How To Install libopendht-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopendht-dev
on Debian 12.
What is libopendht-dev
libopendht-dev is:
OpenDHT is a lightweight C++17 Distributed Hash Table implementation.
OpenDHT provides an easy to use distributed in-memory data store. Every node in the network can read and write values to the store. Values are distributed over the network, with redundancy.
Overview of features:
- Lightweight and scalable, designed for large networks and small devices
- High resilience to network disruption
- Public key cryptography layer providing optional data signature and encryption (using GnuTLS)
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- Clean and powerful C++17 map API
- Bindings for C and Python 3
- REST API with optional HTTP client+server with push notification support
This package contains the C++ library headers and other development files.
There are three methods to install libopendht-dev
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libopendht-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 libopendht-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopendht-dev
Install libopendht-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopendht-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopendht-dev
Install libopendht-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 libopendht-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopendht-dev
How To Uninstall libopendht-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libopendht-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopendht-dev
Uninstall libopendht-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopendht-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopendht-dev
Remove libopendht-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libopendht-dev
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopendht-dev
Remove libopendht-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopendht-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopendht-dev
Dependencies
libopendht-dev have the following dependencies:
- libopendht2
- libgnutls28-dev
- libmsgpack-cxx-dev
- libmsgpack-cxx-dev
- libreadline6-dev
- libncurses-dev
- libargon2-dev
- librestinio-dev
- libasio-dev
- libjsoncpp-dev
- libhttp-parser-dev
- libssl-dev
- libfmt-dev
- nettle-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopendht-dev
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.