How To Install brotli on Debian 10

Learn how to install brotli on Debian 10 with this tutorial. brotli is lossless compression algorithm and format (command line utility)

Introduction

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

What is brotli

brotli is:

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.

This package installs a command line utility.

There are three methods to install brotli 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 brotli Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install brotli

Install brotli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install brotli

Install brotli 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 brotli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install brotli

How To Uninstall brotli on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove brotli

Uninstall brotli And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove brotli

Remove brotli Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge brotli

Remove brotli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brotli

Dependencies

brotli have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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