How To Install libivykis0 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libivykis0 on Ubuntu 18.04. libivykis0 is Asynchronous I/O readiness notification library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libivykis0 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libivykis0

libivykis0 is:

The ivykis library is a thin, portable wrapper around OS-provided mechanisms such as epoll(4), kqueue(2) and poll(2). It was mainly designed for building high-performance network applications, but can be used in any event-driver application that uses pollable file descriptors as its event sources.

Programs written to the ivykis API are generally single-threaded (or use only a small number of threads), and never block on I/O. All input and output is done in a nonblocking fashion, with I/O readiness notification delivered via callback functions.

There are three methods to install libivykis0 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 libivykis0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libivykis0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libivykis0

Install libivykis0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libivykis0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libivykis0

Install libivykis0 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 libivykis0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libivykis0

How To Uninstall libivykis0 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libivykis0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libivykis0

Uninstall libivykis0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libivykis0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libivykis0

Remove libivykis0 Configurations and Data

To remove libivykis0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libivykis0

Remove libivykis0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libivykis0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libivykis0

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libivykis0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.