How To Install libpurelibc1 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurelibc1 on Debian 9.
What is libpurelibc1
libpurelibc1 is:
purelibc is an overlay library that converts the glibc, the GNU standard C library, into a pure library, i.e. a library that can upcall instead of running the system calls. With purelibc a process can trace (and virtualize) its own calls. It is used, for instance, by the UMView modules to support the recursion of virtual environments.
purelibc, along with UMView, is part of the View-OS project: http://wiki.virtualsquare.org
This package contains the library, that can be linked with an application or preloaded using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
There are three methods to install libpurelibc1 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libpurelibc1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpurelibc1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpurelibc1
Install libpurelibc1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpurelibc1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpurelibc1
Install libpurelibc1 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 libpurelibc1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpurelibc1
How To Uninstall libpurelibc1 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libpurelibc1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpurelibc1
Uninstall libpurelibc1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpurelibc1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpurelibc1
Remove libpurelibc1 Configurations and Data
To remove libpurelibc1 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpurelibc1
Remove libpurelibc1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpurelibc1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpurelibc1
Dependencies
libpurelibc1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurelibc1 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.