How To Install valac-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install valac-bin on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is valac-bin
valac-bin is:
Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.
This particular package is an implementation detail of the vala packaging. It should not be installed directly and there should be no dependencies on it. Refer to the valac package instead.
Package: valac-bin Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.48.3-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/devel Source: vala Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 149 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.48), libvala-0.48-0 (= 0.48.3-1), libvalacodegen-0.48-0 (= 0.48.3-1) Conflicts: valac-0.12, valac-0.14, valac-0.16, valac-0.18, valac-0.20, valac-0.22, valac-0.24, valac-0.26, valac-0.28, valac-0.30 Breaks: valac (« 0.46.5-1.1~) Replaces: valac (« 0.46.5-1.1~) Filename: pool/universe/v/vala/valac-bin_0.48.3-1_amd64.deb Size: 25084 MD5sum: fcfdfb288d80306df3cdc627cecdd2dc SHA1: daf411951a3d2d7a27f0f6dc1f0a24067d616ff5 SHA256: 026bb9a7c53242eeb77532832ac34dc1417c50dda5aaa1632d4983e96c7a36b5 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/ Description-en: internal package for C# like language for the GObject system Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.
This particular package is an implementation detail of the vala packaging. It should not be installed directly and there should be no dependencies on it. Refer to the valac package instead.
There are three methods to install valac-bin 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 valac-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install valac-bin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install valac-bin
Install valac-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install valac-bin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install valac-bin
Install valac-bin 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 valac-bin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install valac-bin
How To Uninstall valac-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the valac-bin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove valac-bin
Uninstall valac-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall valac-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove valac-bin
Remove valac-bin Configurations and Data
To remove valac-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge valac-bin
Remove valac-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove valac-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge valac-bin
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install valac-bin package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.