How To Install libmemcached-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmemcached-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmemcached-tools
libmemcached-tools 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.
This package provides several command line tools:
- memccat - Copy the value of a key to standard output
- memcflush - Flush the contents of your servers.
- memcrm - Remove a key(s) from the server.
- memccp - Copy files to a memcached server.
- memcstat - Dump the stats of your servers to standard output
- memcslap - Generate testing loads on a memcached cluster
There are three methods to install libmemcached-tools 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 libmemcached-tools 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-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmemcached-tools
Install libmemcached-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmemcached-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmemcached-tools
Install libmemcached-tools 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 libmemcached-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmemcached-tools
How To Uninstall libmemcached-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmemcached-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmemcached-tools
Uninstall libmemcached-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmemcached-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmemcached-tools
Remove libmemcached-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libmemcached-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmemcached-tools
Remove libmemcached-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmemcached-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmemcached-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmemcached-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
