How to Install and Uninstall isal Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: February 23,2025

1. Install "isal" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install isal on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                isal
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "isal" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall isal on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                isal
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the isal package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: isal
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.30.0-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: libisal
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian OpenStack
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 49
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libisal2 (>= 2.24.0)
Filename: pool/universe/libi/libisal/isal_2.30.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 10836
MD5sum: b112243a83c6e0e8ca83759a3e4db907
SHA1: bbc828c0ad2b97c2ea31aeec5b14ab070b847349
SHA256: bbc3df64ab9f6ab01dad060d58237676b75cbfa726fea0e5c4b2925058db8ba6
SHA512: fe68b2678100f18f53437a618d426c18f23af9305044cafc2460c5736cf836b1d756fdd26b21880b94b838f13dc89523ff022f67a4160b04af0061b3e4e2d39a
Homepage: https://github.com/01org/isa-l
Description-en: Intel(R) Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library - tools
Collection of low-level functions used in storage applications.
Contains fast erasure codes that implement a general
Reed-Solomon type encoding for blocks of data that helps protect against
erasure of whole blocks. The general ISA-L library contains an expanded
set of functions used for data protection, hashing, encryption, etc.
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This package contains CLI tools.
Description-md5: 7f9035928ec89f5e08326038dda3a0d1