How To Install libstonithd-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstonithd-dev on Debian 9. libstonithd-dev is cluster resource manager STONITH daemon library development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstonithd-dev on Debian 9.

What is libstonithd-dev

libstonithd-dev is:

At its core, Pacemaker is a distributed finite state machine capable of co-ordinating the startup and recovery of inter-related services across a set of machines.

Pacemaker understands many different resource types (OCF, SYSV, systemd) and can accurately model the relationships between them (colocation, ordering).

It can even use technology such as Docker to automatically isolate the resources managed by the cluster.

This package contains the headers and other necessary files to build applications or libraries that use the STONITH daemon library.

There are three methods to install libstonithd-dev on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libstonithd-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 libstonithd-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libstonithd-dev

Install libstonithd-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libstonithd-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libstonithd-dev

How To Uninstall libstonithd-dev on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove libstonithd-dev

Uninstall libstonithd-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libstonithd-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstonithd-dev

Remove libstonithd-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libstonithd-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libstonithd-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libstonithd-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libstonithd-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.