How To Install libpurelibc1 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurelibc1 on Ubuntu 18.04. libpurelibc1 is libc+syscalls to libc-only wrapper for libc functions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurelibc1 on Ubuntu 18.04.

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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04

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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpurelibc1

Remove libpurelibc1 Configurations and Data

To remove libpurelibc1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpurelibc1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.