How To Install ucommon-utils on Debian 12

Learn how to install ucommon-utils on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ucommon-utils is lightweight C++ threading and sockets - utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ucommon-utils on Debian 12.

What is ucommon-utils

ucommon-utils is:

GNU uCommon C++ is a lightweight library to facilitate using C++ design patterns even for very deeply embedded applications, such as for systems using uClibc along with POSIX threading support. For this reason, uCommon disables language features that consume memory or introduce runtime overhead. uCommon introduces some design patterns from Objective-C, such as reference counted objects, memory pools, and smart pointers. uCommon introduces some new concepts for handling of thread locking and synchronization.

This package contains the following utilities included as part of the GNU uCommon C++ project:

  • args
  • car
  • keywait
  • mdsum
  • scrub
  • sockaddr
  • zerofill

There are three methods to install ucommon-utils 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 ucommon-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ucommon-utils

Install ucommon-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ucommon-utils

Install ucommon-utils 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 ucommon-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ucommon-utils

How To Uninstall ucommon-utils on Debian 12

To uninstall only the ucommon-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ucommon-utils

Uninstall ucommon-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ucommon-utils

Remove ucommon-utils Configurations and Data

To remove ucommon-utils configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ucommon-utils

Remove ucommon-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ucommon-utils

Dependencies

ucommon-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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