How To Install go-bindata on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install go-bindata
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is go-bindata
go-bindata is:
This tool converts any file into manageable Go source code. It is useful for embedding binary data into a Go program. The file data is optionally gzip compressed before being converted to a raw byte slice.
This package provides the standalone utility go-bindata
.
There are three methods to install go-bindata
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 go-bindata Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install go-bindata
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install go-bindata
Install go-bindata Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install go-bindata
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install go-bindata
Install go-bindata 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 go-bindata
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install go-bindata
How To Uninstall go-bindata on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the go-bindata
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove go-bindata
Uninstall go-bindata And Its Dependencies
To uninstall go-bindata
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove go-bindata
Remove go-bindata Configurations and Data
To remove go-bindata
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge go-bindata
Remove go-bindata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove go-bindata
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge go-bindata
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install go-bindata
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.