How To Install rocksdb-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rocksdb-tools on Debian 12.
What is rocksdb-tools
rocksdb-tools is:
C++ library providing an embedded key-value store, where keys and values are arbitrary byte streams. It was developed at Facebook based on LevelDB and provides backwards-compatible support for LevelDB APIs.
RocksDB is optimized for Flash with extremely low latencies. RocksDB uses a Log Structured Database Engine for storage, written entirely in C++.
RocksDB features highly flexible configuration settings that may be tuned to run on a variety of production environments, including pure memory, Flash, hard disks or HDFS. It supports various compression algorithms and good tools for production support and debugging.
Features:
- Designed for application servers wanting to store up to a few terabytes of data on locally attached Flash drives or in RAM
- Optimized for storing small to medium size key-values on fast storage – flash devices or in-memory
- Scales linearly with number of CPUs so that it works well on ARM processors
This package contains administration and data access tools.
There are three methods to install rocksdb-tools 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 rocksdb-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rocksdb-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rocksdb-tools
Install rocksdb-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rocksdb-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rocksdb-tools
Install rocksdb-tools 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 rocksdb-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rocksdb-tools
How To Uninstall rocksdb-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the rocksdb-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rocksdb-tools
Uninstall rocksdb-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rocksdb-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rocksdb-tools
Remove rocksdb-tools Configurations and Data
To remove rocksdb-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rocksdb-tools
Remove rocksdb-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rocksdb-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rocksdb-tools
Dependencies
rocksdb-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rocksdb-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
