How To Install libdieharder3 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdieharder3 on Debian 11.
What is libdieharder3
libdieharder3 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 shared library.
There are three methods to install libdieharder3 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libdieharder3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libdieharder3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdieharder3
Install libdieharder3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdieharder3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdieharder3
Install libdieharder3 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 libdieharder3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdieharder3
How To Uninstall libdieharder3 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libdieharder3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdieharder3
Uninstall libdieharder3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdieharder3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdieharder3
Remove libdieharder3 Configurations and Data
To remove libdieharder3 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdieharder3
Remove libdieharder3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdieharder3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdieharder3
Dependencies
libdieharder3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdieharder3 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
