How To Install libprotoc10 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc10 on Ubuntu 18.04. libprotoc10 is protocol buffers compiler library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc10 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libprotoc10

libprotoc10 is:

Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data - similar to XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the “old” format.

Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.

This package contains the runtime library needed for the protocol buffer compiler.

There are three methods to install libprotoc10 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libprotoc10 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libprotoc10 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libprotoc10

Install libprotoc10 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libprotoc10 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libprotoc10

Install libprotoc10 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 libprotoc10 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libprotoc10

How To Uninstall libprotoc10 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libprotoc10 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libprotoc10

Uninstall libprotoc10 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libprotoc10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprotoc10

Remove libprotoc10 Configurations and Data

To remove libprotoc10 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libprotoc10

Remove libprotoc10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libprotoc10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprotoc10

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotoc10 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.