How To Install golang-any on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-any on Ubuntu 18.04. golang-any is Go programming language – gccgo on non-Go platforms

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-any on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is golang-any

golang-any is:

The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It’s a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

This is a dependency package that depends on the default Go toolchain and compiled standard library or gccgo on architectures that do not have a native toolchain (“gc compiler”) port. Because the gccgo and Go releases are not on the same schedule, it is not guaranteed that the version of the Go language provided by the version of gccgo that this package depends upon will match the version of this package.

There are three methods to install golang-any 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 golang-any Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install golang-any

Install golang-any Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install golang-any

Install golang-any 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 golang-any using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install golang-any

How To Uninstall golang-any on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the golang-any package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove golang-any

Uninstall golang-any And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove golang-any

Remove golang-any Configurations and Data

To remove golang-any configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge golang-any

Remove golang-any configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge golang-any

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Summary

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