How To Install lz4 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is lz4
lz4 is:
LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.
This package contains files that is tool using liblz4.
There are three methods to install lz4
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lz4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lz4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lz4
Install lz4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lz4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lz4
Install lz4 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 lz4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lz4
How To Uninstall lz4 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the lz4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lz4
Uninstall lz4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lz4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lz4
Remove lz4 Configurations and Data
To remove lz4
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lz4
Remove lz4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lz4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lz4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.