How To Install liblzma-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzma-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. liblzma-dev is XZ-format compression library - development files XZ-format compression library - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzma-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

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.

Package: liblzma-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.2.4-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: extra Section: libdevel Source: xz-utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder jrnieder@gmail.com Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 576 Depends: liblzma5 (= 5.2.4-1) Suggests: liblzma-doc Filename: pool/main/x/xz-utils/liblzma-dev_5.2.4-1_amd64.deb Size: 145420 MD5sum: 93a0797e1e6966b5bcff6c859c373a6b SHA1: b482f36ed710f614a88386002d3888ad60238300 SHA256: 8373145ed28563aff33b116c434399347ab1fa77ba672d8d94151dd8f68c8ece Homepage: https://tukaani.org/xz/ Description-en: XZ-format compression library - development files 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.

There are three methods to install liblzma-dev 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 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 20.04

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 20.04, 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 20.04 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 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.