How To Install libmemcached11 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmemcached11 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmemcached11
libmemcached11 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 libmemcached shared library itself.
There are three methods to install libmemcached11 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 libmemcached11 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmemcached11 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmemcached11
Install libmemcached11 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmemcached11 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmemcached11
Install libmemcached11 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 libmemcached11 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmemcached11
How To Uninstall libmemcached11 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmemcached11 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmemcached11
Uninstall libmemcached11 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmemcached11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmemcached11
Remove libmemcached11 Configurations and Data
To remove libmemcached11 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmemcached11
Remove libmemcached11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmemcached11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmemcached11
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmemcached11 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
