How To Install liblxc-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblxc-common
liblxc-common is:
Containers are insulated areas inside a system, which have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, IPC, CPU and memory allocation and which can be created using the Control Group and Namespace features included in the Linux kernel.
This package contains a few binaries and security profiles required by all liblxc users.
There are three methods to install liblxc-common 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 liblxc-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblxc-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblxc-common
Install liblxc-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblxc-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblxc-common
Install liblxc-common 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 liblxc-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblxc-common
How To Uninstall liblxc-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblxc-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblxc-common
Uninstall liblxc-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblxc-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblxc-common
Remove liblxc-common Configurations and Data
To remove liblxc-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblxc-common
Remove liblxc-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblxc-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblxc-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
