How To Install liblz4-tool on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-tool on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblz4-tool
liblz4-tool 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 is a transitional package. It can be safely removed.
Package: liblz4-tool Architecture: all Version: 1.9.2-2 Priority: extra Section: universe/utils Source: lz4 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 13 Depends: lz4 Filename: pool/universe/l/lz4/liblz4-tool_1.9.2-2_all.deb Size: 2512 MD5sum: aea055b7f8c0795aa0738fd7f8918adf SHA1: 2d62b8517d909092b76e542a20feea6f02c86022 SHA256: 1e9fd208deddefb2ed4841193c0112f88a040f7d2626e336ad29253cb7868416 Homepage: https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4 Description-en: Fast LZ compression algorithm library - transitional package 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 is a transitional package. It can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install liblz4-tool 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 liblz4-tool 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-tool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblz4-tool
Install liblz4-tool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblz4-tool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblz4-tool
Install liblz4-tool 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-tool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblz4-tool
How To Uninstall liblz4-tool on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblz4-tool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblz4-tool
Uninstall liblz4-tool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblz4-tool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblz4-tool
Remove liblz4-tool Configurations and Data
To remove liblz4-tool configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblz4-tool
Remove liblz4-tool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblz4-tool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblz4-tool
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblz4-tool package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.