How To Install libtokyocabinet9 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libtokyocabinet9 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libtokyocabinet9 is Tokyo Cabinet Database Libraries [runtime]

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtokyocabinet9 on Debian 10.

What is libtokyocabinet9

libtokyocabinet9 is:

Tokyo Cabinet is an efficient database library like GDBM and NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed as the successor of QDBM, for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.

This is the runtime package for programs that use the Tokyo Cabinet database library.

There are three methods to install libtokyocabinet9 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 libtokyocabinet9 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libtokyocabinet9 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libtokyocabinet9

Install libtokyocabinet9 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libtokyocabinet9 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libtokyocabinet9

Install libtokyocabinet9 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 libtokyocabinet9 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libtokyocabinet9

How To Uninstall libtokyocabinet9 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libtokyocabinet9 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libtokyocabinet9

Uninstall libtokyocabinet9 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libtokyocabinet9 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtokyocabinet9

Remove libtokyocabinet9 Configurations and Data

To remove libtokyocabinet9 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libtokyocabinet9

Remove libtokyocabinet9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libtokyocabinet9 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtokyocabinet9

Dependencies

libtokyocabinet9 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtokyocabinet9 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.