How To Install libknet1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libknet1
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libknet1
Remove libknet1 Configurations and Data
To remove libknet1
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libknet1
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.