How To Install isal on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install isal
on Debian 11.
What is isal
isal is:
Collection of low-level functions used in storage applications. Contains fast erasure codes that implement a general Reed-Solomon type encoding for blocks of data that helps protect against erasure of whole blocks. The general ISA-L library contains an expanded set of functions used for data protection, hashing, encryption, etc.
This package contains CLI tools.
There are three methods to install isal
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install isal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install isal
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install isal
Install isal Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install isal
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install isal
Install isal 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 isal
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install isal
How To Uninstall isal on Debian 11
To uninstall only the isal
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove isal
Uninstall isal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall isal
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove isal
Remove isal Configurations and Data
To remove isal
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge isal
Remove isal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove isal
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge isal
Dependencies
isal have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install isal
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.