How To Install libdevmapper-dev on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdevmapper-dev on Debian 9.
What is libdevmapper-dev
libdevmapper-dev is:
The Linux Kernel Device Mapper is the LVM (Linux Logical Volume Management) Team’s implementation of a minimalistic kernel-space driver that handles volume management, while keeping knowledge of the underlying device layout in user-space. This makes it useful for not only LVM, but software raid, and other drivers that create “virtual” block devices.
This package contains the (user-space) header files for accessing the device-mapper; it allow usage of the device-mapper through a clean, consistent interface (as opposed to through kernel ioctls).
There are three methods to install libdevmapper-dev on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libdevmapper-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 libdevmapper-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdevmapper-dev
Install libdevmapper-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdevmapper-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdevmapper-dev
Install libdevmapper-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 libdevmapper-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdevmapper-dev
How To Uninstall libdevmapper-dev on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libdevmapper-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdevmapper-dev
Uninstall libdevmapper-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdevmapper-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdevmapper-dev
Remove libdevmapper-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libdevmapper-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdevmapper-dev
Remove libdevmapper-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdevmapper-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdevmapper-dev
Dependencies
libdevmapper-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdevmapper-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.