How To Install libsparsehash-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libsparsehash-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libsparsehash-dev is Googles extremely memory-efficient C++ hash_map implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsparsehash-dev on Debian 12.

What is libsparsehash-dev

libsparsehash-dev is:

The Google SparseHash project contains several C++ template hash-map implementations in use at Google, with different performance characteristics, including an implementation that optimizes for space and one that optimizes for speed.

There are three methods to install libsparsehash-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libsparsehash-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsparsehash-dev

Install libsparsehash-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libsparsehash-dev

Install libsparsehash-dev 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 libsparsehash-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsparsehash-dev

How To Uninstall libsparsehash-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libsparsehash-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsparsehash-dev

Uninstall libsparsehash-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsparsehash-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsparsehash-dev

Remove libsparsehash-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libsparsehash-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsparsehash-dev

Remove libsparsehash-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsparsehash-dev

Dependencies

libsparsehash-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsparsehash-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.