How To Install liboam-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install liboam-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. liboam-dev is Datacenter flavor of a GPU system-management API headers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboam-dev on Debian 12.

What is liboam-dev

liboam-dev is:

OCP Accelerator Module (OAM), is an Open Compute Project (OCP) hardware standard, used in datacenters and high-performance-computing (HPC) clusters. This library is the sibling of the ROCm System Management Interface (SMI) Application Programming Interface (API), targeted at OAMs.

This package contains the development headers.

There are three methods to install liboam-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liboam-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 liboam-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboam-dev

Install liboam-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboam-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboam-dev

Install liboam-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 liboam-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboam-dev

How To Uninstall liboam-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the liboam-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboam-dev

Uninstall liboam-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboam-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboam-dev

Remove liboam-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liboam-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboam-dev

Remove liboam-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboam-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboam-dev

Dependencies

liboam-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboam-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.