How To Install librocksdb5.17 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librocksdb5.17 on Debian 10.
What is librocksdb5.17
librocksdb5.17 is:
C++ library providing an embedded key-value store, where keys and values are arbitrary byte streams. It was developed at Facebook based on LevelDB and provides backwards-compatible support for LevelDB APIs.
RocksDB is optimized for Flash with extremely low latencies. RocksDB uses a Log Structured Database Engine for storage, written entirely in C++.
RocksDB features highly flexible configuration settings that may be tuned to run on a variety of production environments, including pure memory, Flash, hard disks or HDFS. It supports various compression algorithms and good tools for production support and debugging.
Features:
- Designed for application servers wanting to store up to a few terabytes of data on locally attached Flash drives or in RAM
- Optimized for storing small to medium size key-values on fast storage – flash devices or in-memory
- Scales linearly with number of CPUs so that it works well on ARM processors
There are three methods to install librocksdb5.17 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 librocksdb5.17 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install librocksdb5.17 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install librocksdb5.17
Install librocksdb5.17 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install librocksdb5.17 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install librocksdb5.17
Install librocksdb5.17 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 librocksdb5.17 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install librocksdb5.17
How To Uninstall librocksdb5.17 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the librocksdb5.17 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove librocksdb5.17
Uninstall librocksdb5.17 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall librocksdb5.17 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove librocksdb5.17
Remove librocksdb5.17 Configurations and Data
To remove librocksdb5.17 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge librocksdb5.17
Remove librocksdb5.17 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove librocksdb5.17 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librocksdb5.17
Dependencies
librocksdb5.17 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librocksdb5.17 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
