Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdieharder-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libdieharder-dev
libdieharder-dev is:
libdieharder is the core library of dieharder and friends, designed to
be “the last suite of random number testers you’ll ever wear”. It can
test any of its many prebuilt and library linked generators (basically
all of those in the GNU Scientific Library plus a number of others from
various sources) or a potentially random dataset in either an
ascii-formatted or raw (presumed 32 bit uint) binary file. It is fairly
straightforward to wrap new software generators for testing, or to add
hardware generators that have a software interface for testing, and the
file input method permits pretty much any software or hardware RNG to be
tested using libdieharder calls.
libdieharder has as a design goal the full encapsulation in an
extensible shell of basically all the random number tests I have been
able to find – George Marsaglia’s “diehard” battery of tests, STS
(v1.6) from NIST FIPS, Knuth’s tests, and more. Check in the man
page(s) or /usr/share/dieharder*/dieharder.pdf for documentation.
This package provides the header files and the pdf manual.
There are three methods to install libdieharder-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libdieharder-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 libdieharder-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdieharder-dev
Install libdieharder-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdieharder-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdieharder-dev
Install libdieharder-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 libdieharder-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdieharder-dev
How To Uninstall libdieharder-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libdieharder-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdieharder-dev
Uninstall libdieharder-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdieharder-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdieharder-dev
Remove libdieharder-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libdieharder-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdieharder-dev
Remove libdieharder-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdieharder-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdieharder-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdieharder-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
