How To Install libblockdev-plugins-all on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-plugins-all
on Debian 11.
What is libblockdev-plugins-all
libblockdev-plugins-all is:
libblockdev is a C library with GObject introspection support that can be used for doing low-level operations with block devices like setting up LVM, BTRFS, LUKS or MD RAID.
The library uses plugins (LVM, BTRFS,…) and serves as a thin wrapper around its plugins’ functionality.
This is a metapackage that depends on all libblockdev plugins.
There are three methods to install libblockdev-plugins-all
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 libblockdev-plugins-all Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libblockdev-plugins-all
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libblockdev-plugins-all
Install libblockdev-plugins-all Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libblockdev-plugins-all
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libblockdev-plugins-all
Install libblockdev-plugins-all 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 libblockdev-plugins-all
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libblockdev-plugins-all
How To Uninstall libblockdev-plugins-all on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libblockdev-plugins-all
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libblockdev-plugins-all
Uninstall libblockdev-plugins-all And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libblockdev-plugins-all
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libblockdev-plugins-all
Remove libblockdev-plugins-all Configurations and Data
To remove libblockdev-plugins-all
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libblockdev-plugins-all
Remove libblockdev-plugins-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libblockdev-plugins-all
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libblockdev-plugins-all
Dependencies
libblockdev-plugins-all have the following dependencies:
- libblockdev2
- libblockdev-btrfs2
- libblockdev-crypto2
- libblockdev-dm2
- libblockdev-fs2
- libblockdev-kbd2
- libblockdev-loop2
- libblockdev-lvm2
- libblockdev-lvm-dbus2
- libblockdev-mdraid2
- libblockdev-nvdimm2
- libblockdev-mpath2
- libblockdev-part2
- libblockdev-part-err2
- libblockdev-swap2
- libblockdev-utils2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-plugins-all
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.