How To Install liburing2 on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburing2 on Ubuntu 22.04. liburing2 is Linux kernel io_uring access library - shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburing2 on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is liburing2

liburing2 is:

This library provides helpers to setup and teardown io_uring instances, and also a simplified interface for applications that do not need (or want) to deal with the full kernel side implementation.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install liburing2 on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liburing2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liburing2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liburing2

Install liburing2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liburing2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liburing2

Install liburing2 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 liburing2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liburing2

How To Uninstall liburing2 on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the liburing2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liburing2

Uninstall liburing2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liburing2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liburing2

Remove liburing2 Configurations and Data

To remove liburing2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liburing2

Remove liburing2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liburing2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liburing2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburing2 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.