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

Last updated: December 25,2024

1. Install "librdkafka-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install librdkafka-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                librdkafka-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "librdkafka-dev" package

Learn how to uninstall librdkafka-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the librdkafka-dev package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: librdkafka-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6.0-1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: librdkafka
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Faidon Liambotis
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 4140
Depends: librdkafka++1 (= 1.6.0-1), librdkafka1 (= 1.6.0-1)
Filename: pool/universe/libr/librdkafka/librdkafka-dev_1.6.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 716648
MD5sum: 139fdbcd305712914a4c1d48b6bc0052
SHA1: 8869815298734592b49804c9856db5b70aafb5cf
SHA256: 3b0afec18bb73f9977f1a225375624a7cf3936b38f3ef337feaae7eb508ec489
SHA512: 9815827d5660e655906f22ec5f7d5a5b37cb553b998cb235779ce80520ee10941f48a680edbe95d93157af3e7af234f7272f8de79b28841c5b8cfa871169d211
Homepage: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
Description-en: library implementing the Apache Kafka protocol (development headers)
librdkafka is a C library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol,
providing Producer, Consumer and Admin clients. It was designed with message
delivery reliability and high performance in mind, current figures exceed 1
million msgs/second for the producer and 3 million msgs/second for the
consumer.
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More information about Apache Kafka can be found at http://kafka.apache.org/
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This package contains the development headers.
Description-md5: 2f47faef9806ae0190670ff71b24dbc4