How To Install liblxc-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. liblxc-dev is Linux Containers userspace tools (development) Linux Containers userspace tools (development)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

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.

Package: liblxc-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Source: lxc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1792 Depends: liblxc1 (= 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1) Breaks: lxc-dev (« 2.1.1-0ubuntu2~) Replaces: lxc-dev (« 2.1.1-0ubuntu2~) Filename: pool/universe/l/lxc/liblxc-dev_4.0.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 336556 MD5sum: fe3a0e16a93d951b479192eb49cc2602 SHA1: 195ef025401a2d3f1f4e77be55e1e973516da2ea SHA256: 57bfe944983dcbda5d415a002a831895b21ef40f05182da5479c27947f0c7254 Homepage: https://linuxcontainers.org Description-en: Linux Containers userspace tools (development) 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 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 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 20.04

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 20.04, 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 20.04 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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblxc-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.