How To Install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross
libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross is:
This package was generated by dpkg-cross for cross compiling.
Contains the symlinks and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library. This is the 64bit version of the library, meant for AMD64 systems.
Package: libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross Architecture: all Version: 2.31-0ubuntu7cross1 Built-Using: binutils (= 2.34-5ubuntu1), linux (= 5.4.0-21.25), gcc-9 (= 9.3.0-9ubuntu1), glibc (= 2.31-0ubuntu7) Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Source: cross-toolchain-base (43ubuntu3) Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Provides: lib64c-dev-i386-cross, libc6-dev-amd64-i386-dcv1 Depends: libc6-amd64-i386-cross (= 2.31-0ubuntu7cross1), libc6-dev-i386-cross (= 2.31-0ubuntu7cross1) Filename: pool/universe/c/cross-toolchain-base/libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross_2.31-0ubuntu7cross1_all.deb Size: 2022604 MD5sum: 2d15a60a167438ad30c246903e9de8dc SHA1: 136c4920b7d525cfc289367a7bcc8091b3bc2865 SHA256: ace33943a3fc13235f51725f45a26103d75af50f3e668d5bf1d944c890ef88f4 Description-en: GNU C Library: 64bit Development Libraries for AMD64 (for cross-compiling) This package was generated by dpkg-cross for cross compiling.
Contains the symlinks and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library. This is the 64bit version of the library, meant for AMD64 systems.
There are three methods to install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross 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 libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross
Install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross
Install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross 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 libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross
How To Uninstall libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross
Uninstall libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross
Remove libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross Configurations and Data
To remove libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross
Remove libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libc6-dev-amd64-i386-cross package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
