How To Install libjerasure-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjerasure-dev
on Debian 11.
What is libjerasure-dev
libjerasure-dev is:
In information theory, an erasure code is a forward error correction (FEC) code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of symbols into a longer message (code word) with symbols such that the original message can be recovered from a subset of the symbols.
Jerasure is a shared library that been designed to be modular, fast and flexible. It is used in storage systems such as Swift and Ceph to add fault tolerance.
This package contains the development files needed to build against the shared library.
There are three methods to install libjerasure-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 libjerasure-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 libjerasure-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjerasure-dev
Install libjerasure-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjerasure-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjerasure-dev
Install libjerasure-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 libjerasure-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjerasure-dev
How To Uninstall libjerasure-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libjerasure-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjerasure-dev
Uninstall libjerasure-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjerasure-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjerasure-dev
Remove libjerasure-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libjerasure-dev
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjerasure-dev
Remove libjerasure-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjerasure-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjerasure-dev
Dependencies
libjerasure-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjerasure-dev
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.