How To Install libknet1 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libknet1 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libknet1 is kronosnet core switching implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libknet1 on Debian 10.

What is libknet1

libknet1 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 libraries that are used by libknet clients.

There are three methods to install libknet1 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libknet1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libknet1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libknet1

Install libknet1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libknet1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libknet1

Install libknet1 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 libknet1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libknet1

How To Uninstall libknet1 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libknet1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libknet1

Uninstall libknet1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libknet1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libknet1

Remove libknet1 Configurations and Data

To remove libknet1 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libknet1

Remove libknet1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libknet1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libknet1

Dependencies

libknet1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libknet1 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.