How To Install libio-compress-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libio-compress-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libio-compress-perl
libio-compress-perl is:
This package contains the following IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress modules:
- Compress::Zlib
- IO::Compress::Base
- IO::Compress::Bzip2
- IO::Compress::Deflate
- IO::Compress::Gzip
- IO::Compress::RawDeflate
- IO::Compress::Zip
- IO::Uncompress::Base
- IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2
- IO::Uncompress::Gunzip
- IO::Uncompress::Inflate
- IO::Uncompress::RawInflate
- IO::Uncompress::Unzip
Compress::Zlib is a Perl external module which provides an interface to the info-zip zlib compression library. zlib is a general purpose compression library.
Some of the features provided by Compress::Zlib include:
* in-memory compression and decompression
* read and write gzip (.gz) files directly.
IO::Compress::Bunzip2 and IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 provide a Perl interface that allows transparent reading and writing bzip2 compressed data to files or buffers.
IO::Compress::Base is the base class for all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress modules. It is not intended for direct use in application code. Its sole purpose is to be sub-classed by IO::Compress modules.
There are three methods to install libio-compress-perl 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 libio-compress-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libio-compress-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libio-compress-perl
Install libio-compress-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libio-compress-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libio-compress-perl
Install libio-compress-perl 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 libio-compress-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libio-compress-perl
How To Uninstall libio-compress-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libio-compress-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libio-compress-perl
Uninstall libio-compress-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libio-compress-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libio-compress-perl
Remove libio-compress-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libio-compress-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libio-compress-perl
Remove libio-compress-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libio-compress-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libio-compress-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libio-compress-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
