How To Install liblzma-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzma-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblzma-dev
liblzma-dev is:
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
The native format of liblzma is XZ; it also supports raw (headerless) streams and the older LZMA format used by lzma. (For 7-Zip’s related format, use the p7zip package instead.) This package provides the development library needed to build programs using liblzma.
There are three methods to install liblzma-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 liblzma-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 liblzma-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblzma-dev
Install liblzma-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblzma-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblzma-dev
Install liblzma-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 liblzma-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblzma-dev
How To Uninstall liblzma-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblzma-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblzma-dev
Uninstall liblzma-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblzma-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblzma-dev
Remove liblzma-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblzma-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblzma-dev
Remove liblzma-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblzma-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblzma-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzma-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
