How To Install libdevmapper-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdevmapper-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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).
Package: libdevmapper-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:1.02.167-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: lvm2 (2.03.07-1ubuntu1) Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian LVM Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 186 Depends: libdevmapper1.02.1 (= 2:1.02.167-1ubuntu1), libdevmapper-event1.02.1 (= 2:1.02.167-1ubuntu1), libudev-dev, libselinux1-dev Filename: pool/main/l/lvm2/libdevmapper-dev_1.02.167-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 35804 MD5sum: 7217c5777200391fabb4f7c9cd360f9e SHA1: 3f4b86916fa90a6f887210892a8c84c93f570f14 SHA256: 02682b257b77f53d981a3812bd86c8baec42d1f848758fe2b753eddbad6bf5de Homepage: http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/ Description-en: Linux Kernel Device Mapper header files 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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdevmapper-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.