How To Install prelink on Debian 10

Learn how to install prelink on Debian 10 with this tutorial. prelink is ELF prelinking utility to speed up dynamic linking

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelink on Debian 10.

prelink is:

The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries and executables, so that far fewer relocations need to be resolved at runtime and thus programs come up faster.

There are three methods to install prelink 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install prelink

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install prelink

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 prelink using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prelink

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

sudo apt-get remove prelink

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelink

To remove prelink configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge prelink

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelink

Dependencies

prelink have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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