How To Install libhavege-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhavege-dev
on Debian 11.
What is libhavege-dev
libhavege-dev is:
libhavege is a library that implements the HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion). It provides a random number generator and it’s associated tuning and testing factilities.
More information about HAVEGE is available at http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libhavege-dev
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 libhavege-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 libhavege-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhavege-dev
Install libhavege-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhavege-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhavege-dev
Install libhavege-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 libhavege-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhavege-dev
How To Uninstall libhavege-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libhavege-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhavege-dev
Uninstall libhavege-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhavege-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhavege-dev
Remove libhavege-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libhavege-dev
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhavege-dev
Remove libhavege-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhavege-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhavege-dev
Dependencies
libhavege-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhavege-dev
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.