How To Install libblktapctl0 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblktapctl0 on Debian 9. libblktapctl0 is Xen API blktapctl shared library (shared library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblktapctl0 on Debian 9.

What is libblktapctl0

libblktapctl0 is:

The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source enterprise-ready server virtualization and cloud computing platform, delivering the Xen Hypervisor with support for a range of guest operating systems. This package is part of it. It implements the userland part of the blktap driver.

Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file format standard which maps logical hard disk contents to a physical disk image format, which can then be more efficiently stored in a variety of different storage types, such as file systems or logical volumes.

VHDs are container files storing block metadata alongside a virtual disk’s contents, in a single disk image. The metadata enables advanced storage backend capabilities, such as thin provisioning, disk image snapshotting, and coalescing of differencing disks. . Libvhd is a library to access VHD format metadata. It provides disk image initialization, inspection and manipulation to both VHD user utilities and the VHD disk driver in Blktap.

This package contains the runtime blktapctl library.

There are three methods to install libblktapctl0 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 libblktapctl0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libblktapctl0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libblktapctl0

Install libblktapctl0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libblktapctl0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libblktapctl0

Install libblktapctl0 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 libblktapctl0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libblktapctl0

How To Uninstall libblktapctl0 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libblktapctl0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libblktapctl0

Uninstall libblktapctl0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libblktapctl0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libblktapctl0

Remove libblktapctl0 Configurations and Data

To remove libblktapctl0 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libblktapctl0

Remove libblktapctl0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libblktapctl0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libblktapctl0

Dependencies

libblktapctl0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblktapctl0 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.