How To Install libsquashfuse-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquashfuse-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libsquashfuse-dev
libsquashfuse-dev is:
This lets you mount SquashFS archives in user-space. It supports almost all features of the SquashFS format, yet is still fast and memory-efficient.
SquashFS is an efficiently compressed, read-only storage format. Support for it has been built into the Linux kernel since 2009. It is very common on Live CDs and embedded Linux distributions.
This package contains development files for libsquashfuse
There are three methods to install libsquashfuse-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsquashfuse-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 libsquashfuse-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsquashfuse-dev
Install libsquashfuse-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsquashfuse-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsquashfuse-dev
Install libsquashfuse-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libsquashfuse-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsquashfuse-dev
How To Uninstall libsquashfuse-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libsquashfuse-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsquashfuse-dev
Uninstall libsquashfuse-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsquashfuse-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsquashfuse-dev
Remove libsquashfuse-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libsquashfuse-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsquashfuse-dev
Remove libsquashfuse-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsquashfuse-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsquashfuse-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquashfuse-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.