How To Install liblmdb0 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblmdb0 on Ubuntu 18.04. liblmdb0 is Lightning Memory-Mapped Database shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblmdb0 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblmdb0

liblmdb0 is:

This package contains the LMDB shared library.

Lighting Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) is an ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store developed for the OpenLDAP Project. It uses memory-mapped files, so it has the read performance of a pure in-memory database while still offering the persistence of standard disk-based databases, and is only limited to the size of the virtual address space, (it is not limited to the size of physical RAM).

There are three methods to install liblmdb0 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 liblmdb0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblmdb0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblmdb0

Install liblmdb0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblmdb0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblmdb0

Install liblmdb0 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 liblmdb0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblmdb0

How To Uninstall liblmdb0 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblmdb0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblmdb0

Uninstall liblmdb0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblmdb0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblmdb0

Remove liblmdb0 Configurations and Data

To remove liblmdb0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblmdb0

Remove liblmdb0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblmdb0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblmdb0

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblmdb0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.