How To Install libhiredis-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhiredis-dev on Debian 12.
What is libhiredis-dev
libhiredis-dev is:
Hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database. It is minimalistic because it just adds minimal support for the protocol, but at the same time it uses an high level printf-alike API in order to make it much higher level than otherwise suggested by its minimal code base and the lack of explicit bindings for every Redis command.
Apart from supporting sending commands and receiving replies, it comes with a reply parser that is decoupled from the I/O layer. It is a stream parser designed for easy reusability, which can for instance be used in higher level language bindings for efficient reply parsing.
Hiredis only supports the binary-safe Redis protocol, so you can use it with any Redis version >= 1.2.0.
The library comes with multiple APIs. There is the synchronous API, the asynchronous API and the reply parsing API.
This package provides the development files for hiredis.
There are three methods to install libhiredis-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 libhiredis-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 libhiredis-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhiredis-dev
Install libhiredis-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhiredis-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhiredis-dev
Install libhiredis-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 libhiredis-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhiredis-dev
How To Uninstall libhiredis-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libhiredis-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhiredis-dev
Uninstall libhiredis-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhiredis-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhiredis-dev
Remove libhiredis-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libhiredis-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhiredis-dev
Remove libhiredis-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhiredis-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhiredis-dev
Dependencies
libhiredis-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhiredis-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
