How To Install brotli on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brotli on Debian 9.
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 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.