How To Install libsereal-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsereal-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libsereal-perl
libsereal-perl is:
Sereal is an efficient, compact-output, binary and feature-rich serialization protocol. The Perl encoder is implemented as the Sereal::Encoder module, the Perl decoder correspondingly as Sereal::Decoder. They are distributed separately, in Debian as libsereal-decoder-perl and libsereal-encoder-perl.
This Sereal module is a very thin wrapper around both Sereal::Encoder and Sereal::Decoder. It depends on both and loads both. So if you have a user of both encoder and decoder, it is enough to depend on a particular version of Sereal and you’ll get the most recent released versions of Sereal::Encoder and Sereal::Decoder.
There are three methods to install libsereal-perl 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 libsereal-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsereal-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsereal-perl
Install libsereal-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsereal-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsereal-perl
Install libsereal-perl 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 libsereal-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsereal-perl
How To Uninstall libsereal-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libsereal-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsereal-perl
Uninstall libsereal-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsereal-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsereal-perl
Remove libsereal-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libsereal-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsereal-perl
Remove libsereal-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsereal-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsereal-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsereal-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
