How To Install liblzf1 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 liblzf1 on Ubuntu.
What is liblzf1
liblzf1 is:
This library implements the very, very fast LZF compression algorithm written in C. Compression ratios are moderate with 40 to 50 percent for typical binary data, but decompression speed is basically at unoptimized memcpy speed.
There are three methods to install liblzf1 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 liblzf1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblzf1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblzf1
Install liblzf1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblzf1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblzf1
Install liblzf1 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 liblzf1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblzf1
How To Uninstall liblzf1 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the liblzf1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblzf1
Uninstall liblzf1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblzf1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblzf1
Remove liblzf1 Configurations and Data
To remove liblzf1 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblzf1
Remove liblzf1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblzf1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblzf1
Dependencies
liblzf1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf1 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.