How To Install liberasurecode1 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberasurecode1 on Ubuntu 18.04. liberasurecode1 is support of multiple erasure code backends - shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberasurecode1 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liberasurecode1

liberasurecode1 is:

Liberasurecode is an erasure code library which can support multiple erasure code ‘backends’. The repository includes a Jerasure for Reed-Solomon implementation.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install liberasurecode1 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 liberasurecode1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liberasurecode1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liberasurecode1

Install liberasurecode1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liberasurecode1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liberasurecode1

Install liberasurecode1 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 liberasurecode1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liberasurecode1

How To Uninstall liberasurecode1 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liberasurecode1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liberasurecode1

Uninstall liberasurecode1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liberasurecode1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liberasurecode1

Remove liberasurecode1 Configurations and Data

To remove liberasurecode1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liberasurecode1

Remove liberasurecode1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liberasurecode1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liberasurecode1

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liberasurecode1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.