How To Install liblz4-1 on Debian 12

Learn how to install liblz4-1 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. liblz4-1 is Fast LZ compression algorithm library - runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-1 on Debian 12.

What is liblz4-1

liblz4-1 is:

LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.

This package includes the shared library.

There are three methods to install liblz4-1 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblz4-1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblz4-1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblz4-1

Install liblz4-1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblz4-1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblz4-1

Install liblz4-1 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install liblz4-1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblz4-1

How To Uninstall liblz4-1 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the liblz4-1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblz4-1

Uninstall liblz4-1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblz4-1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblz4-1

Remove liblz4-1 Configurations and Data

To remove liblz4-1 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblz4-1

Remove liblz4-1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblz4-1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblz4-1

Dependencies

liblz4-1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-1 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.