How To Install librgw2 on Debian 10

Learn how to install librgw2 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. librgw2 is RADOS Gateway client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librgw2 on Debian 10.

What is librgw2

librgw2 is:

RADOS is a distributed object store used by the Ceph distributed storage system. This package provides a REST gateway to the object store that aims to implement a superset of Amazon’s S3 service.

This package contains the library interface and headers only.

There are three methods to install librgw2 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install librgw2 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librgw2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librgw2

Install librgw2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librgw2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librgw2

Install librgw2 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 librgw2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librgw2

How To Uninstall librgw2 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the librgw2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librgw2

Uninstall librgw2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librgw2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librgw2

Remove librgw2 Configurations and Data

To remove librgw2 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librgw2

Remove librgw2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librgw2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librgw2

Dependencies

librgw2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librgw2 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.