How To Install libopendht2 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopendht2 on Debian 12.
What is libopendht2
libopendht2 is:
OpenDHT is a lightweight C++17 Distributed Hash Table implementation.
OpenDHT provides an easy to use distributed in-memory data store. Every node in the network can read and write values to the store. Values are distributed over the network, with redundancy.
Overview of features:
- Lightweight and scalable, designed for large networks and small devices
- High resilience to network disruption
- Public key cryptography layer providing optional data signature and encryption (using GnuTLS)
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- Clean and powerful C++17 map API
- Bindings for C and Python 3
- REST API with optional HTTP client+server with push notification support
This package contains the C++ shared library.
There are three methods to install libopendht2 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 libopendht2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libopendht2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopendht2
Install libopendht2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopendht2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopendht2
Install libopendht2 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 libopendht2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopendht2
How To Uninstall libopendht2 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libopendht2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopendht2
Uninstall libopendht2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopendht2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopendht2
Remove libopendht2 Configurations and Data
To remove libopendht2 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopendht2
Remove libopendht2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopendht2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopendht2
Dependencies
libopendht2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopendht2 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
