How To Install libcrmcommon-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcrmcommon-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. libcrmcommon-dev is cluster resource manager common library development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcrmcommon-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libcrmcommon-dev

libcrmcommon-dev is:

At its core, Pacemaker is a distributed finite state machine capable of co-ordinating the startup and recovery of inter-related services across a set of machines.

Pacemaker understands many different resource types (OCF, SYSV, systemd) and can accurately model the relationships between them (colocation, ordering).

It can even use technology such as Docker to automatically isolate the resources managed by the cluster.

This package contains the headers and other necessary files to build applications or libraries that use the common library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcrmcommon-dev

Install libcrmcommon-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libcrmcommon-dev

Install libcrmcommon-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 libcrmcommon-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcrmcommon-dev

How To Uninstall libcrmcommon-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove libcrmcommon-dev

Uninstall libcrmcommon-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcrmcommon-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcrmcommon-dev

Remove libcrmcommon-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libcrmcommon-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcrmcommon-dev

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcrmcommon-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.