How To Install libdivsufsort3 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdivsufsort3 on Ubuntu 18.04. libdivsufsort3 is fast suffix array construction

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdivsufsort3 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libdivsufsort3

libdivsufsort3 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 shared library files.

There are three methods to install libdivsufsort3 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libdivsufsort3 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libdivsufsort3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libdivsufsort3

Install libdivsufsort3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libdivsufsort3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libdivsufsort3

Install libdivsufsort3 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 libdivsufsort3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libdivsufsort3

How To Uninstall libdivsufsort3 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libdivsufsort3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libdivsufsort3

Uninstall libdivsufsort3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libdivsufsort3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdivsufsort3

Remove libdivsufsort3 Configurations and Data

To remove libdivsufsort3 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libdivsufsort3

Remove libdivsufsort3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libdivsufsort3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdivsufsort3

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdivsufsort3 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.