How To Install libuv1 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libuv1 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libuv1 is asynchronous event notification library - runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuv1 on Debian 12.

What is libuv1

libuv1 is:

Libuv is the asynchronous library behind Node.js. Very similar to libevent or libev, it provides the main elements for event driven systems: watching and waiting for availability in a set of sockets, and some other events like timers or asynchronous messages. However, libuv also comes with some other extras like:

  • files watchers and asynchronous operations
  • a portable TCP and UDP API, as well as asynchronous DNS resolution
  • processes and threads management, and a portable inter-process communications mechanism, with pipes and work queues
  • a plugins mechanism for loading libraries dynamically
  • interface with external libraries that also need to access the I/O.

This package includes the dynamic library against which you can link your program.

There are three methods to install libuv1 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 libuv1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libuv1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libuv1

Install libuv1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libuv1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libuv1

Install libuv1 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 libuv1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libuv1

How To Uninstall libuv1 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libuv1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libuv1

Uninstall libuv1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libuv1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libuv1

Remove libuv1 Configurations and Data

To remove libuv1 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libuv1

Remove libuv1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libuv1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libuv1

Dependencies

libuv1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuv1 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.