How To Install libldb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libldb-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libldb-dev
libldb-dev is:
ldb is a LDAP-like embedded database built on top of TDB.
What ldb does is provide a fast database with an LDAP-like API designed to be used within an application. In some ways it can be seen as a intermediate solution between key-value pair databases and a real LDAP database.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libldb-dev
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 libldb-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 libldb-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libldb-dev
Install libldb-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libldb-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libldb-dev
Install libldb-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libldb-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libldb-dev
How To Uninstall libldb-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libldb-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libldb-dev
Uninstall libldb-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libldb-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libldb-dev
Remove libldb-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libldb-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libldb-dev
Remove libldb-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libldb-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libldb-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libldb-dev
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.