How To Install liblxc-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblxc-dev
liblxc-dev 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 the development files.
There are three methods to install liblxc-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 liblxc-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 liblxc-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblxc-dev
Install liblxc-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblxc-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblxc-dev
Install liblxc-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 liblxc-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblxc-dev
How To Uninstall liblxc-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblxc-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblxc-dev
Uninstall liblxc-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblxc-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblxc-dev
Remove liblxc-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblxc-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblxc-dev
Remove liblxc-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblxc-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblxc-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
