How To Install libsam-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsam-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libsam-dev
libsam-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 Simple Availability Manager library.
Package: libsam-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: 73 Depends: libcorosync-common-dev (= 3.0.3-2ubuntu2), libsam4 (= 3.0.3-2ubuntu2) Filename: pool/main/c/corosync/libsam-dev_3.0.3-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 30232 MD5sum: 20d9e2d226012c5036c2df5a18baf168 SHA1: b53b6910c18f87dc1ffb3b5911a3cc83c2767df0 SHA256: 1c4b3df8182bbb8128918f97b902d881eeeb88bd2be9a729086089927131d834 Homepage: https://corosync.github.io/corosync/ Description-en: cluster engine SAM 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 Simple Availability Manager library.
There are three methods to install libsam-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 libsam-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 libsam-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsam-dev
Install libsam-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsam-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsam-dev
Install libsam-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 libsam-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsam-dev
How To Uninstall libsam-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libsam-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsam-dev
Uninstall libsam-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsam-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsam-dev
Remove libsam-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libsam-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsam-dev
Remove libsam-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsam-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsam-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsam-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.