How To Install libblkid-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblkid-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libblkid-dev
libblkid-dev is:
The blkid library allows system programs such as fsck and mount to quickly and easily find block devices by filesystem UUID or label. This allows system administrators to avoid specifying filesystems by hard-coded device names and use a logical naming system instead.
This package contains the development environment for the blkid library.
Package: libblkid-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.34-0.1ubuntu9 Multi-Arch: same Priority: extra Section: libdevel Source: util-linux Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: LaMont Jones [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 933 Depends: libblkid1 (= 2.34-0.1ubuntu9), libc6-dev | libc-dev, uuid-dev Filename: pool/main/u/util-linux/libblkid-dev_2.34-0.1ubuntu9_amd64.deb Size: 166956 MD5sum: 2bba86aed51037b421c28f20acd14185 SHA1: ad37f1223faf294310cac3c6a5e7044d4f314f58 SHA256: 876a6b9ecd8ec7d94feb468080d6c3666486648c4422b618705e59b4560cc615 Description-en: block device ID library - headers and static libraries The blkid library allows system programs such as fsck and mount to quickly and easily find block devices by filesystem UUID or label. This allows system administrators to avoid specifying filesystems by hard-coded device names and use a logical naming system instead.
This package contains the development environment for the blkid library.
There are three methods to install libblkid-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libblkid-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 libblkid-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libblkid-dev
Install libblkid-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libblkid-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libblkid-dev
Install libblkid-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libblkid-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libblkid-dev
How To Uninstall libblkid-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libblkid-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libblkid-dev
Uninstall libblkid-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libblkid-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libblkid-dev
Remove libblkid-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libblkid-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libblkid-dev
Remove libblkid-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libblkid-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libblkid-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblkid-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.