How To Install liblzo2-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzo2-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is liblzo2-dev
liblzo2-dev is:
LZO is a portable, lossless data compression library. This package contains the header files and static libraries for the LZO data compression library.
There are three methods to install liblzo2-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 liblzo2-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 liblzo2-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblzo2-dev
Install liblzo2-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblzo2-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblzo2-dev
Install liblzo2-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 liblzo2-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblzo2-dev
How To Uninstall liblzo2-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the liblzo2-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblzo2-dev
Uninstall liblzo2-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblzo2-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblzo2-dev
Remove liblzo2-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblzo2-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblzo2-dev
Remove liblzo2-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblzo2-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblzo2-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzo2-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.