How To Install gogoprotobuf on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gogoprotobuf
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gogoprotobuf
gogoprotobuf is:
An alternative protocol buffer support for the Go programming language, forked from golang-goprotobuf. It is backwards compatible with goprotobuf, but provides faster marshalling and unmarshalling and can generate extra helper code, tests and benchmarks.
This package provides utilities.
There are three methods to install gogoprotobuf
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 gogoprotobuf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gogoprotobuf
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gogoprotobuf
Install gogoprotobuf Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gogoprotobuf
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gogoprotobuf
Install gogoprotobuf 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 gogoprotobuf
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gogoprotobuf
How To Uninstall gogoprotobuf on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gogoprotobuf
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gogoprotobuf
Uninstall gogoprotobuf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gogoprotobuf
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gogoprotobuf
Remove gogoprotobuf Configurations and Data
To remove gogoprotobuf
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gogoprotobuf
Remove gogoprotobuf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gogoprotobuf
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gogoprotobuf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gogoprotobuf
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.