How To Install libquorum-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquorum-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. libquorum-dev is cluster engine Quorum library development cluster engine Quorum library development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquorum-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libquorum-dev

libquorum-dev is:

The Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications. The project provides four C Application Programming Interface features:

  • A closed process group communication model with virtual synchrony guarantees for creating replicated state machines.
  • A simple availability manager that restarts the application process when it has failed.
  • A configuration and statistics in-memory database that provide the ability to set, retrieve, and receive change notifications of information.
  • A quorum system that notifies applications when quorum is achieved or lost.

This package contains the headers and other necessary files to build applications or libraries that use the Quorum library.

Package: libquorum-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.0.3-2ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: corosync Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian HA Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 58 Depends: libcorosync-common-dev (= 3.0.3-2ubuntu2), libquorum5 (= 3.0.3-2ubuntu2) Filename: pool/main/c/corosync/libquorum-dev_3.0.3-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 21008 MD5sum: f5278196f8d0cd60c41b6aabb5a07d47 SHA1: 7aa7b33230516c2fd555c0dbe79ae99249a4827a SHA256: d5cd58e398fd79b61ca10f308f5f74d01717c345d8236565a665f7f33b5af056 Homepage: https://corosync.github.io/corosync/ Description-en: cluster engine Quorum library development The Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications. The project provides four C Application Programming Interface features:

  • A closed process group communication model with virtual synchrony guarantees for creating replicated state machines.
  • A simple availability manager that restarts the application process when it has failed.
  • A configuration and statistics in-memory database that provide the ability to set, retrieve, and receive change notifications of information.
  • A quorum system that notifies applications when quorum is achieved or lost.

This package contains the headers and other necessary files to build applications or libraries that use the Quorum library.

There are three methods to install libquorum-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libquorum-dev

Install libquorum-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libquorum-dev

Install libquorum-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install libquorum-dev

How To Uninstall libquorum-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove libquorum-dev

Uninstall libquorum-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libquorum-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libquorum-dev

Remove libquorum-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libquorum-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libquorum-dev

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libquorum-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.