How To Install libcmph-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcmph-tools on Debian 12.
What is libcmph-tools
libcmph-tools is:
Minimal perfect hash functions are widely used for memory efficient storage and fast retrieval of items from static sets, such as words in natural languages, reserved words in programming languages or interactive systems, universal resource locations (URLs) in Web search engines, or item sets in data mining techniques.
This package contains the cmph command line utility to generate and query minimal perfect hash functions.
There are three methods to install libcmph-tools 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 libcmph-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcmph-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcmph-tools
Install libcmph-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcmph-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcmph-tools
Install libcmph-tools 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 libcmph-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcmph-tools
How To Uninstall libcmph-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libcmph-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcmph-tools
Uninstall libcmph-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcmph-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcmph-tools
Remove libcmph-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libcmph-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcmph-tools
Remove libcmph-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcmph-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcmph-tools
Dependencies
libcmph-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcmph-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
