How To Install libvectorscan-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvectorscan-dev on Debian 12.
What is libvectorscan-dev
libvectorscan-dev is:
Vectorscan is a portable fork of Intel’s Hyperscan project. It is a drop-in replacement that promises to be API/ABI compatible with the original project, while allowing it to run on other architectures such as AArch64 and Power9.
This package contains development libraries, header files and documentation for the regular expression matching library libhyperscan. You can either use the supplied shared or static library.
Vectorscan only runs on CPUs with a SIMD unit. On x86 CPUs, the minimum requirement is SSE4.2, AArch64 ISA already implies Advanced SIMD/NEON and ppc64le (Power8/Power9) already implies VSX enabled by default.
There are three methods to install libvectorscan-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 libvectorscan-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 libvectorscan-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvectorscan-dev
Install libvectorscan-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvectorscan-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvectorscan-dev
Install libvectorscan-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 libvectorscan-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvectorscan-dev
How To Uninstall libvectorscan-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libvectorscan-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvectorscan-dev
Uninstall libvectorscan-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvectorscan-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvectorscan-dev
Remove libvectorscan-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libvectorscan-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvectorscan-dev
Remove libvectorscan-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvectorscan-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvectorscan-dev
Dependencies
libvectorscan-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvectorscan-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
