How To Install libtokyotyrant-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtokyotyrant-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. libtokyotyrant-dev is Tokyo Tyrant development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtokyotyrant-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libtokyotyrant-dev

libtokyotyrant-dev is:

Tokyo Tyrant is a network interface to the DBM Tokyo Cabinet. You might bother in the case where multiple processes share the same database or where remote processes access the database. Thus, Tokyo Tyrant is provided for concurrent and remote connections to Tokyo Cabinet.

This is the development package for Tokyo Tyrant. It contains headers and libraries.

There are three methods to install libtokyotyrant-dev 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 libtokyotyrant-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 libtokyotyrant-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libtokyotyrant-dev

Install libtokyotyrant-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libtokyotyrant-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libtokyotyrant-dev

How To Uninstall libtokyotyrant-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove libtokyotyrant-dev

Uninstall libtokyotyrant-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libtokyotyrant-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtokyotyrant-dev

Remove libtokyotyrant-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libtokyotyrant-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libtokyotyrant-dev

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtokyotyrant-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.