How To Install libbrotli1 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libbrotli1 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libbrotli1 is library implementing brotli encoder and decoder (shared libraries)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbrotli1 on Debian 12.

What is libbrotli1

libbrotli1 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 shared libraries.

There are three methods to install libbrotli1 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libbrotli1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libbrotli1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbrotli1

Install libbrotli1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libbrotli1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libbrotli1

Install libbrotli1 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 libbrotli1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbrotli1

How To Uninstall libbrotli1 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libbrotli1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbrotli1

Uninstall libbrotli1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbrotli1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbrotli1

Remove libbrotli1 Configurations and Data

To remove libbrotli1 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbrotli1

Remove libbrotli1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libbrotli1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbrotli1

Dependencies

libbrotli1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbrotli1 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.