How To Install liburcu8 on Debian 12

Learn how to install liburcu8 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. liburcu8 is userspace RCU (read-copy-update) library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburcu8 on Debian 12.

What is liburcu8

liburcu8 is:

This data synchronization library provides read-side access which scales linearly with the number of cores. It does so by allowing multiples copies of a given data structure to live at the same time, and by monitoring the data structure accesses to detect grace periods after which memory reclamation is possible.

There are three methods to install liburcu8 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 liburcu8 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liburcu8 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liburcu8

Install liburcu8 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liburcu8 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liburcu8

Install liburcu8 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 liburcu8 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liburcu8

How To Uninstall liburcu8 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the liburcu8 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liburcu8

Uninstall liburcu8 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liburcu8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liburcu8

Remove liburcu8 Configurations and Data

To remove liburcu8 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liburcu8

Remove liburcu8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liburcu8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liburcu8

Dependencies

liburcu8 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburcu8 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.