How To Install libdumbnet1 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdumbnet1 on Debian 11.
What is libdumbnet1
libdumbnet1 is:
libdumbnet provides a simplified, portable interface to several low-level networking routines, including
- network address manipulation
- kernel arp(4) cache and route(4) table lookup and manipulation
- network firewalling (Ip filter, ipfw, ipchains, pdf, …)
- network interface lookup and manipulation
- raw IP packet and Ethernet frame transmission
libdumbnet is known as libdnet in other distributions, but was renamed in Debian in favour of the older DECnet library ’libdnet'.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libdumbnet1 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 libdumbnet1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libdumbnet1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdumbnet1
Install libdumbnet1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdumbnet1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdumbnet1
Install libdumbnet1 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 libdumbnet1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdumbnet1
How To Uninstall libdumbnet1 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libdumbnet1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdumbnet1
Uninstall libdumbnet1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdumbnet1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdumbnet1
Remove libdumbnet1 Configurations and Data
To remove libdumbnet1 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdumbnet1
Remove libdumbnet1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdumbnet1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdumbnet1
Dependencies
libdumbnet1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdumbnet1 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
