How To Install libstorj-dev 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 libstorj-dev on Ubuntu.
What is libstorj-dev
libstorj-dev is:
Asynchronous multi-platform C library for encrypted file transfer on the Storj network. libstorj provides the following features:
- Asynchronous I/O with concurrent peer-to-peer network requests for shards
- Erasure encoding with reed solomon for data durability
- Robust handling of shard transfers by selecting alternative sources
- File integrity and authenticity verified with HMAC-SHA512
- File encryption with AES-256-CTR
- File name and bucket name encryption with AES -256 -GCM
- Proxy support with SOCKS5, SOCKS4, SOCKS4a
- Asynchronous progress updates in bytes per file
- Transfers can be cleanly canceled per file
- Seed based file encryption key for portability between devices
- Reference implementation for SIP5 file standard
This package contains the development files for libjstorj.
There are three methods to install libstorj-dev 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 libstorj-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libstorj-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libstorj-dev
Install libstorj-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libstorj-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libstorj-dev
Install libstorj-dev 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 libstorj-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libstorj-dev
How To Uninstall libstorj-dev on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libstorj-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libstorj-dev
Uninstall libstorj-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libstorj-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libstorj-dev
Remove libstorj-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libstorj-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libstorj-dev
Remove libstorj-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libstorj-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libstorj-dev
Dependencies
libstorj-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libstorj-dev package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.