How To Install gcc-9-multilib on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcc-9-multilib
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gcc-9-multilib
gcc-9-multilib is:
This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C.
This is a dependency package, depending on development packages for the non-default multilib architecture(s).
Package: gcc-9-multilib Architecture: amd64 Version: 9.3.0-10ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: devel Source: gcc-9 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 6 Depends: gcc-9-base (= 9.3.0-10ubuntu2), gcc-9 (= 9.3.0-10ubuntu2), libc6-dev-i386 (>= 2.11), libc6-dev-x32 (>= 2.11), lib32gcc-9-dev (= 9.3.0-10ubuntu2), libx32gcc-9-dev (= 9.3.0-10ubuntu2) Filename: pool/main/g/gcc-9/gcc-9-multilib_9.3.0-10ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 1056 MD5sum: ef7a9c89d697971229a1bc3a23995752 SHA1: 5b26aeaf6faed3533c5976dcd7422a6ae05102d9 SHA256: cd064e51760ac92f318f6aae6a6d66fae1e51c5d583e08b62ccb2109e8e1e17e Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/ Description-en: GNU C compiler (multilib support) This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C.
This is a dependency package, depending on development packages for the non-default multilib architecture(s).
There are three methods to install gcc-9-multilib
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 gcc-9-multilib Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gcc-9-multilib
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gcc-9-multilib
Install gcc-9-multilib Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gcc-9-multilib
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gcc-9-multilib
Install gcc-9-multilib 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 gcc-9-multilib
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gcc-9-multilib
How To Uninstall gcc-9-multilib on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gcc-9-multilib
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gcc-9-multilib
Uninstall gcc-9-multilib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gcc-9-multilib
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gcc-9-multilib
Remove gcc-9-multilib Configurations and Data
To remove gcc-9-multilib
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gcc-9-multilib
Remove gcc-9-multilib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gcc-9-multilib
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gcc-9-multilib
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcc-9-multilib
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.