How To Install liblz-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblz-dev
liblz-dev is:
The lzlib compression library provides in-memory LZMA compression and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the uncompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the lzip format.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install liblz-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 liblz-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 liblz-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblz-dev
Install liblz-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblz-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblz-dev
Install liblz-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 liblz-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblz-dev
How To Uninstall liblz-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblz-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblz-dev
Uninstall liblz-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblz-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblz-dev
Remove liblz-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblz-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblz-dev
Remove liblz-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblz-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblz-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
