How To Install libdevmapper-event1.02.1 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libdevmapper-event1.02.1 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libdevmapper-event1.02.1 is Linux Kernel Device Mapper event support library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdevmapper-event1.02.1 on Debian 10.

What is libdevmapper-event1.02.1

libdevmapper-event1.02.1 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 userspace library to help with event monitoring for devmapper devices, in conjunction with the dmevent daemon.

There are three methods to install libdevmapper-event1.02.1 on Debian 10. 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-event1.02.1 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-event1.02.1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libdevmapper-event1.02.1

Install libdevmapper-event1.02.1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libdevmapper-event1.02.1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libdevmapper-event1.02.1

Install libdevmapper-event1.02.1 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-event1.02.1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdevmapper-event1.02.1

How To Uninstall libdevmapper-event1.02.1 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libdevmapper-event1.02.1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdevmapper-event1.02.1

Uninstall libdevmapper-event1.02.1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libdevmapper-event1.02.1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdevmapper-event1.02.1

Remove libdevmapper-event1.02.1 Configurations and Data

To remove libdevmapper-event1.02.1 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdevmapper-event1.02.1

Remove libdevmapper-event1.02.1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libdevmapper-event1.02.1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdevmapper-event1.02.1

Dependencies

libdevmapper-event1.02.1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdevmapper-event1.02.1 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.