How To Install libeet-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libeet-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libeet-dev
libeet-dev is:
Eet is a tiny library designed to write an arbitrary set of chunks of data to a file and optionally compress each chunk (very much like a zip file) and allows fast random-access reading of the file later on. It does not do zip as zip itself has more complexity than needed, and it was much simpler to implement this once here.
This package contains headers and static libraries for development with libeet.
There are three methods to install libeet-dev 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 libeet-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 libeet-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libeet-dev
Install libeet-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libeet-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libeet-dev
Install libeet-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libeet-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libeet-dev
How To Uninstall libeet-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libeet-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libeet-dev
Uninstall libeet-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libeet-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libeet-dev
Remove libeet-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libeet-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libeet-dev
Remove libeet-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libeet-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libeet-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libeet-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
