How To Install libgearman8 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libgearman8 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libgearman8 is Library providing Gearman client and worker functions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgearman8 on Debian 10.

What is libgearman8

libgearman8 is:

Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.

This package contains the C reimplementation of the client library.

There are three methods to install libgearman8 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libgearman8 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libgearman8 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgearman8

Install libgearman8 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgearman8 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgearman8

Install libgearman8 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 libgearman8 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgearman8

How To Uninstall libgearman8 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libgearman8 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgearman8

Uninstall libgearman8 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgearman8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgearman8

Remove libgearman8 Configurations and Data

To remove libgearman8 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgearman8

Remove libgearman8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgearman8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgearman8

Dependencies

libgearman8 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgearman8 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.