How To Install liblz4-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblz4-dev
liblz4-dev 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 contains files that are needed to build applications.
There are three methods to install liblz4-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 liblz4-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 liblz4-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblz4-dev
Install liblz4-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblz4-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblz4-dev
Install liblz4-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 liblz4-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblz4-dev
How To Uninstall liblz4-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblz4-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblz4-dev
Uninstall liblz4-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblz4-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblz4-dev
Remove liblz4-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblz4-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblz4-dev
Remove liblz4-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblz4-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblz4-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
