How To Install libbrotli-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbrotli-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libbrotli-dev
libbrotli-dev 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 development files.
There are three methods to install libbrotli-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libbrotli-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 libbrotli-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbrotli-dev
Install libbrotli-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbrotli-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbrotli-dev
Install libbrotli-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 libbrotli-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbrotli-dev
How To Uninstall libbrotli-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libbrotli-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbrotli-dev
Uninstall libbrotli-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbrotli-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbrotli-dev
Remove libbrotli-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libbrotli-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbrotli-dev
Remove libbrotli-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbrotli-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbrotli-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbrotli-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
