How To Install librbd-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install librbd-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. librbd-dev is RADOS block device client library (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librbd-dev on Debian 10.

What is librbd-dev

librbd-dev is:

RBD is a block device striped across multiple distributed objects in RADOS, a reliable, autonomic distributed object storage cluster developed as part of the Ceph distributed storage system. This is a shared library allowing applications to manage these block devices.

This package contains development files needed for building applications that link against librbd1.

There are three methods to install librbd-dev 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 librbd-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 librbd-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librbd-dev

Install librbd-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install librbd-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install librbd-dev

How To Uninstall librbd-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove librbd-dev

Uninstall librbd-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librbd-dev

Remove librbd-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge librbd-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

librbd-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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