How To Install libedac-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libedac-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libedac-dev is report kernel-detected PCI and ECC RAM errors

Introduction

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

What is libedac-dev

libedac-dev is:

This package contains the user-space utilities for use with the EDAC kernel subsystem. EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) is a set of Linux kernel modules for handling hardware-related errors. Currently its major focus is ECC memory error handling. However it also detects and reports PCI bus parity errors.

PCI parity errors are supported on all architectures (and are a mandatory part of the PCI specification).

Main memory ECC drivers are memory controller specific. At the time of writing, drivers exist for many x86-specific chipsets and CPUs, and some PowerPC, and MIPS systems.

This package contains development files for the library

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

sudo apt-get -y install libedac-dev

Install libedac-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libedac-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libedac-dev

How To Uninstall libedac-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libedac-dev

Uninstall libedac-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libedac-dev

Remove libedac-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libedac-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libedac-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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