How To Install libdivsufsort-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libdivsufsort-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libdivsufsort-dev is libdivsufsort header files

Introduction

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

What is libdivsufsort-dev

libdivsufsort-dev is:

The libdivsufsort project provides a fast, lightweight, and robust C API library to construct the suffix array and the Burrows-Wheeler transformed string for any input string of a constant-size alphabet.

This package installs files needed for development.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdivsufsort-dev

Install libdivsufsort-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libdivsufsort-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libdivsufsort-dev

How To Uninstall libdivsufsort-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libdivsufsort-dev

Uninstall libdivsufsort-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdivsufsort-dev

Remove libdivsufsort-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libdivsufsort-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libdivsufsort-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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