How To Install liblzma5 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzma5 on Debian 9.
What is liblzma5
liblzma5 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.)
There are three methods to install liblzma5 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblzma5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblzma5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblzma5
Install liblzma5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblzma5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblzma5
Install liblzma5 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 liblzma5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblzma5
How To Uninstall liblzma5 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the liblzma5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblzma5
Uninstall liblzma5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblzma5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblzma5
Remove liblzma5 Configurations and Data
To remove liblzma5 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblzma5
Remove liblzma5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblzma5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblzma5
Dependencies
liblzma5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzma5 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.