How To Install libdieharder-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libdieharder-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libdieharder-dev is Random-number generator test library – development package

Introduction

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

What is libdieharder-dev

libdieharder-dev is:

libdieharder is the core library of dieharder and friends, designed to be “the last suite of random number testers you’ll ever wear”. It can test any of its many prebuilt and library linked generators (basically all of those in the GNU Scientific Library plus a number of others from various sources) or a potentially random dataset in either an ascii-formatted or raw (presumed 32 bit uint) binary file. It is fairly straightforward to wrap new software generators for testing, or to add hardware generators that have a software interface for testing, and the file input method permits pretty much any software or hardware RNG to be tested using libdieharder calls.

libdieharder has as a design goal the full encapsulation in an extensible shell of basically all the random number tests I have been able to find – George Marsaglia’s “diehard” battery of tests, STS (v1.6) from NIST FIPS, Knuth’s tests, and more. Check in the man page(s) or /usr/share/dieharder*/dieharder.pdf for documentation.

This package provides the header files and the pdf manual.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdieharder-dev

Install libdieharder-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libdieharder-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libdieharder-dev

How To Uninstall libdieharder-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libdieharder-dev

Uninstall libdieharder-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdieharder-dev

Remove libdieharder-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libdieharder-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libdieharder-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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