How To Install libcfg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfg-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcfg-dev
libcfg-dev is:
The Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications. The project provides four C Application Programming Interface features:
- A closed process group communication model with virtual synchrony guarantees for creating replicated state machines.
- A simple availability manager that restarts the application process when it has failed.
- A configuration and statistics in-memory database that provide the ability to set, retrieve, and receive change notifications of information.
- A quorum system that notifies applications when quorum is achieved or lost.
This package contains the headers and other necessary files to build applications or libraries that use the CFG library.
Package: libcfg-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.0.3-2ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: corosync Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian HA Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 39 Depends: libcorosync-common-dev (= 3.0.3-2ubuntu2), libcfg7 (= 3.0.3-2ubuntu2) Filename: pool/main/c/corosync/libcfg-dev_3.0.3-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 4740 MD5sum: 0990cf163f0103163d9a5fa28f5447cc SHA1: dc67468f5f84d8b18592202c9325c4e2aa79a1ce SHA256: 0c09ca498bda46ade9712ac8d79e5c93cab28385abaaaa0e0176ed3f2a3d4300 Homepage: https://corosync.github.io/corosync/ Description-en: cluster engine CFG library development The Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications. The project provides four C Application Programming Interface features:
- A closed process group communication model with virtual synchrony guarantees for creating replicated state machines.
- A simple availability manager that restarts the application process when it has failed.
- A configuration and statistics in-memory database that provide the ability to set, retrieve, and receive change notifications of information.
- A quorum system that notifies applications when quorum is achieved or lost.
This package contains the headers and other necessary files to build applications or libraries that use the CFG library.
There are three methods to install libcfg-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 libcfg-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 libcfg-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcfg-dev
Install libcfg-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcfg-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcfg-dev
Install libcfg-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 libcfg-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcfg-dev
How To Uninstall libcfg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcfg-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcfg-dev
Uninstall libcfg-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcfg-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcfg-dev
Remove libcfg-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libcfg-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcfg-dev
Remove libcfg-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcfg-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcfg-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcfg-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.