How To Install avro-bin on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install avro-bin on Ubuntu.

What is `avro-bin`

avro-bin is:

Apache Avro is a data serialization system. Avro provides rich data structures; a binary data format; and a container file format, to store Avro-encoded data persistently.

This package provides the “avro-c” implementation of Apache Avro in C. The C implementation supports:

binary encoding/decoding of all primitive and complex data types
storage to an Avro Object Container File
schema resolution, promotion and projection
validating and non-validating mode for writing Avro data

The C implementation of Avro lacks RPC support.

This package contains the avro-c command line utilities.

There are three methods to install avro-bin on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install avro-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install avro-bin

Install avro-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install avro-bin

Install avro-bin 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 avro-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install avro-bin

How To Uninstall avro-bin on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the avro-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove avro-bin

Uninstall avro-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall avro-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove avro-bin

Remove avro-bin Configurations and Data

To remove avro-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge avro-bin

Remove avro-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge avro-bin

Dependencies

avro-bin have the following dependencies:

References

avro-bin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install avro-bin package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.