How To Install libgccjit0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgccjit0 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libgccjit0
libgccjit0 is:
libgccjit provides an embeddable shared library with an API for adding compilation to existing programs using GCC.
Package: libgccjit0 Architecture: amd64 Version: 10-20200411-0ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: gcc-10 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 25973 Depends: gcc-10-base (= 10-20200411-0ubuntu1), libgcc-10-dev, binutils, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgmp10 (>= 2:5.0.1~), libisl22 (>= 0.15), libmpc3, libmpfr6 (>= 3.1.3), libzstd1 (>= 1.3.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Breaks: python-gccjit (« 0.4-4), python3-gccjit (« 0.4-4) Filename: pool/universe/g/gcc-10/libgccjit0_10-20200411-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 7268316 MD5sum: 51b9db8ffd7cca94208e82a1913d86e0 SHA1: 2f2e73381d234819dddb4305907bd74bacad531b SHA256: 089f6ac305c828a79e865272fd4cdb9bf2cf18af4424c57ffcdbf0a5e454346a Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/ Description-en: GCC just-in-time compilation (shared library) libgccjit provides an embeddable shared library with an API for adding compilation to existing programs using GCC.
There are three methods to install libgccjit0 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 libgccjit0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgccjit0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgccjit0
Install libgccjit0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgccjit0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgccjit0
Install libgccjit0 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 libgccjit0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgccjit0
How To Uninstall libgccjit0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libgccjit0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgccjit0
Uninstall libgccjit0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgccjit0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgccjit0
Remove libgccjit0 Configurations and Data
To remove libgccjit0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgccjit0
Remove libgccjit0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgccjit0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgccjit0
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgccjit0 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
