How To Install libknet-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libknet-dev
on Debian 11.
What is libknet-dev
libknet-dev is:
Kronosnet, often referred to as knet, is a network abstraction layer designed for High Availability use cases, where redundancy, security, fault tolerance and fast fail-over are the core requirements of your application.
Kronosnet is the new underlying network protocol for Linux HA components (Corosync), that features ability to use multiple links between nodes, active/active and active/passive link failover policies, automatic link recovery, FIPS compliant encryption (nss and/or openssl), automatic PMTUd and in general better performances compared to the old network protocol.
This package contains header files required to build libknet clients.
There are three methods to install libknet-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 libknet-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 libknet-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libknet-dev
Install libknet-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libknet-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libknet-dev
Install libknet-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 libknet-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libknet-dev
How To Uninstall libknet-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libknet-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libknet-dev
Uninstall libknet-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libknet-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libknet-dev
Remove libknet-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libknet-dev
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libknet-dev
Remove libknet-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libknet-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libknet-dev
Dependencies
libknet-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libknet-dev
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.