How To Install libmemcached-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmemcached-dev on Debian 11.
What is libmemcached-dev
libmemcached-dev is:
libmemcached is a C and C++ client library to the memcached server (http://memcached.org/). It has been designed to be light on memory usage, thread safe, and provide full access to server side methods.
A few notes on its design:
- Synchronous and Asynchronous support.
- Access to large object support.
- Local replication.
- TCP and Unix Socket protocols.
- A half dozen or so different tuneable hash algorithms.
- Implementations of the new cas, replace, and append operators.
- Man pages written up on entire API.
- Implements both modulo and consistent hashing solutions.
- Tools to Manage your Memcached networks.
This package provides the development files.
There are three methods to install libmemcached-dev on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmemcached-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 libmemcached-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmemcached-dev
Install libmemcached-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmemcached-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmemcached-dev
Install libmemcached-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libmemcached-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmemcached-dev
How To Uninstall libmemcached-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libmemcached-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmemcached-dev
Uninstall libmemcached-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmemcached-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmemcached-dev
Remove libmemcached-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmemcached-dev configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmemcached-dev
Remove libmemcached-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmemcached-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmemcached-dev
Dependencies
libmemcached-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmemcached-dev package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.