How To Install libvectorscan5 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvectorscan5 on Debian 12.
What is libvectorscan5
libvectorscan5 is:
Vectorscan is a portable fork of Intel’s Hyperscan project. It is a drop-in replacement that promises to be API/ABI compatible with the original project, while allowing it to run on other architectures such as AArch64 and Power9.
Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library. It follows the regular expression syntax of the commonly-used libpcre library, but is a standalone library with its own C API. Hyperscan uses hybrid automata techniques to allow simultaneous matching of large numbers (up to tens of thousands) of regular expressions and for the matching of regular expressions across streams of data. Hyperscan is typically used in a DPI library stack.
Vectorscan only runs on CPUs with a SIMD unit. On x86 CPUs, the minimum requirement is SSE4.2, AArch64 ISA already implies Advanced SIMD/NEON and ppc64le (Power8/Power9) already implies VSX enabled by default.
There are three methods to install libvectorscan5 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 libvectorscan5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvectorscan5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvectorscan5
Install libvectorscan5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvectorscan5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvectorscan5
Install libvectorscan5 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 libvectorscan5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvectorscan5
How To Uninstall libvectorscan5 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libvectorscan5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvectorscan5
Uninstall libvectorscan5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvectorscan5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvectorscan5
Remove libvectorscan5 Configurations and Data
To remove libvectorscan5 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvectorscan5
Remove libvectorscan5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvectorscan5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvectorscan5
Dependencies
libvectorscan5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvectorscan5 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
