How To Install libcritnib-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libcritnib-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libcritnib-dev is ordered map data structure with lock-free reads

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcritnib-dev on Debian 12.

What is libcritnib-dev

libcritnib-dev is:

Critnib is a data structure that provides a very fast equal and less-than/greater-than searches; it is a mix between DJBerstein’s critbit and radix trees. While in bad cases it has worse memory use than binary trees, it works well on real-life data which tends to have a limited number of “decision bits”:

  • fully random: divergence happens immediately
  • malloc addresses: clumps of distinct bits in the middle
  • sequences: only lowest bits are filled

This library ships only uintptr_t??uintptr_t mappings, optimized for reads from a very critical section but not so frequent writes. Other variants also exist (such as fully lock-free writes, keys of arbitrary length), and can be added upon request.

This package contains the development headers.

There are three methods to install libcritnib-dev 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 libcritnib-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 libcritnib-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcritnib-dev

Install libcritnib-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libcritnib-dev

Install libcritnib-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libcritnib-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcritnib-dev

How To Uninstall libcritnib-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libcritnib-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcritnib-dev

Uninstall libcritnib-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcritnib-dev

Remove libcritnib-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libcritnib-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcritnib-dev

Remove libcritnib-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcritnib-dev

Dependencies

libcritnib-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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