How To Install libisal-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libisal-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libisal-dev
libisal-dev is:
Collection of low-level functions used in storage applications. Contains fast erasure codes that implement a general Reed-Solomon type encoding for blocks of data that helps protect against erasure of whole blocks. The general ISA-L library contains an expanded set of functions used for data protection, hashing, encryption, etc.
This package contains the development files needed to build against the shared library.
There are three methods to install libisal-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libisal-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 libisal-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libisal-dev
Install libisal-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libisal-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libisal-dev
Install libisal-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libisal-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libisal-dev
How To Uninstall libisal-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libisal-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libisal-dev
Uninstall libisal-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libisal-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libisal-dev
Remove libisal-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libisal-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libisal-dev
Remove libisal-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libisal-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libisal-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libisal-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.