How To Install brotli on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brotli
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is brotli
brotli is:
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
This package installs a command line utility.
Package: brotli Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.0.7-6build1 Priority: optional Section: universe/python Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Tomasz Buchert [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 750 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) Filename: pool/universe/b/brotli/brotli_1.0.7-6build1_amd64.deb Size: 269404 MD5sum: 3d9878552747f310a5eedfe8ed1a6044 SHA1: d4fdd2952e7fa614fd04729fc89647162d2a708a SHA256: 4b05374ec353593b8c312142243c443d217606173d73c18c505518cfbe23c554 Homepage: https://github.com/google/brotli Description-en: lossless compression algorithm and format (command line utility) Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
This package installs a command line utility.
There are three methods to install brotli
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install brotli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install brotli
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install brotli
Install brotli Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install brotli
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install brotli
Install brotli 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install brotli
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install brotli
How To Uninstall brotli on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the brotli
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove brotli
Uninstall brotli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall brotli
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove brotli
Remove brotli Configurations and Data
To remove brotli
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge brotli
Remove brotli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove brotli
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brotli
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install brotli
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.