How to Install and Uninstall libblockdev-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "libblockdev-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to install libblockdev-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libblockdev-dev

2. Uninstall "libblockdev-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libblockdev-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove libblockdev-dev $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libblockdev-dev package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libblockdev-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.25-2
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: libblockdev
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2221
Depends: libblockdev2 (= 2.25-2), gir1.2-blockdev-2.0 (= 2.25-2)
Filename: pool/main/libb/libblockdev/libblockdev-dev_2.25-2_amd64.deb
Size: 118696
MD5sum: 16ca8d3c91729128bbd86dc5a991fea6
SHA1: ad31b33499c3f2c6b918a47077e93fb2e601e977
SHA256: 337bfaabe264da03c93feab9e1ca309c6b5ebe6e0e0b23f1845153eb3ca05ef4
SHA512: a7528501ecf1e043504592344d5ed990b839a44042d8fc2c1540092fcee1bcd00cb63f6bc55f7f289968fc8f18883d04639955d15350a4288307edd54ec028fa
Homepage: https://github.com/storaged-project/libblockdev
Description-en: Library for manipulating block devices - development
libblockdev is a C library with GObject introspection support that can be used
for doing low-level operations with block devices like setting up LVM, BTRFS,
LUKS or MD RAID.
.
This package contains header files and pkg-config files needed for development
with the libblockdev library.
Description-md5: 6bdd5afe14ccf7f401856270d2f61ed0