How To Install protobuf-codegen on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-codegen
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is protobuf-codegen
protobuf-codegen is:
Includes a library and
protoc-gen-rust
binary. Seeprotoc-rust
andprotobuf-codegen-pure
crates.
This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “protobuf-codegen”:
- protoc-gen-rust
There are three methods to install protobuf-codegen
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install protobuf-codegen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install protobuf-codegen
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install protobuf-codegen
Install protobuf-codegen Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install protobuf-codegen
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install protobuf-codegen
Install protobuf-codegen 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 protobuf-codegen
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install protobuf-codegen
How To Uninstall protobuf-codegen on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the protobuf-codegen
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove protobuf-codegen
Uninstall protobuf-codegen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall protobuf-codegen
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove protobuf-codegen
Remove protobuf-codegen Configurations and Data
To remove protobuf-codegen
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge protobuf-codegen
Remove protobuf-codegen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove protobuf-codegen
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge protobuf-codegen
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-codegen
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.