#libevent Ubuntu Install

##Introduction As a programmer, you may have heard of or used libevent - a high-performance event notification library that provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached.

This guide will walk you through the steps of installing libevent on Ubuntu.

##Installation

1. Open your terminal and update your system by running the following command:

sudo apt update

2. Install the necessary build tools by running:

sudo apt install build-essential

3. Download the latest stable version of libevent from their official website. You can use the following command to download version 2.1.12:

wget https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.1.12-stable/libevent-2.1.12-stable.tar.gz

4. Extract the downloaded file and move to the extracted directory:

tar -xvf libevent-2.1.12-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.1.12-stable

5. Configure, compile, and install libevent by running the following commands:

./configure
make
sudo make install

6. To verify that libevent has been successfully installed, run the following command in your terminal:

ldconfig -p | grep libevent

You should see the path to the installed libevent library.

##Conclusion That's it! You have successfully installed libevent on Ubuntu. Now you can use this powerful event notification library in your application development.