How To Install libc6-pic on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libc6-pic
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libc6-pic
libc6-pic is:
Contains an archive library (ar file) composed of individual shared objects. This is used for creating a library which is a smaller subset of the standard libc shared library. The reduced library is used by debian-installer and may be useful for custom installation media and in embedded systems. Original-Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc Original-Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc.git
Package: libc6-pic Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.31-0ubuntu9 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Source: glibc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 10617 Provides: glibc-pic, libc-pic Depends: libc6 (= 2.31-0ubuntu9) Conflicts: libc-pic Filename: pool/universe/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.31-0ubuntu9_amd64.deb Size: 1569624 MD5sum: c1982f0a2e7f83462212a4d3dc2dbe9b SHA1: 7bd4896182ac2fe53ae2e19da69a1cdd545f9b91 SHA256: d88f99babb35ae70b7bdb9f539c233fec5d98ad08a33f72c4247ad1cb3f9acce Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html Description-en: GNU C Library: PIC archive library Contains an archive library (ar file) composed of individual shared objects. This is used for creating a library which is a smaller subset of the standard libc shared library. The reduced library is used by debian-installer and may be useful for custom installation media and in embedded systems.
There are three methods to install libc6-pic
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-pic 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-pic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libc6-pic
Install libc6-pic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libc6-pic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libc6-pic
Install libc6-pic 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-pic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libc6-pic
How To Uninstall libc6-pic on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libc6-pic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libc6-pic
Uninstall libc6-pic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libc6-pic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libc6-pic
Remove libc6-pic Configurations and Data
To remove libc6-pic
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libc6-pic
Remove libc6-pic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libc6-pic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libc6-pic
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libc6-pic
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.