How To Install golang-golang-x-text-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-golang-x-text-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. golang-golang-x-text-dev is Supplementary Go text-related libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-golang-x-text-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is golang-golang-x-text-dev

golang-golang-x-text-dev is:

golang.org/x/text is a repository of text-related packages, such as character encodings, text transformations, and locale-specific text handling.

  • cases: Package cases provides general and language-specific case mappers.
  • cldr: Package cldr provides a parser for LDML and related XML formats.
  • collate: Package collate contains types for comparing and sorting Unicode strings according to a given collation order.
  • display: Package display provides display names for languages, scripts and regions in a requested language.
  • encoding: Package encoding defines an interface for character encodings, such as Shift JIS and Windows 1252, that can convert to and from UTF-8.
  • encoding/charmap: Package charmap provides simple character encodings such as IBM Code Page 437 and Windows 1252.
  • encoding/japanese: Package japanese provides Japanese encodings such as EUC-JP and Shift JIS.
  • encoding/korean: Package korean provides Korean encodings such as EUC-KR.
  • encoding/simplifiedchinese: Package simplifiedchinese provides Simplified Chinese encodings such as GBK.
  • encoding/traditionalchinese: Package traditionalchinese provides Traditional Chinese encodings such as Big5.
  • encoding/unicode: Package unicode provides Unicode encodings such as UTF-16.
  • internal/colltab: Package colltab contains functionality related to collation tables.
  • internal/gen: Package gen contains common code for the various code generation tools in the text repository.
  • internal/testtext: Package testtext contains test data that is of common use to the text repository.
  • internal/triegen: Package triegen implements a code generator for a trie for associating unsigned integer values with UTF-8 encoded runes.
  • internal/ucd: Package ucd provides a parser for Unicode Character Database files, the format of which is defined in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/.
  • language: Package language implements BCP 47 language tags and related functionality.
  • runes: Package runes provide transforms for UTF-8 encoded text.
  • search: Package search provides language-specific search and string matching.
  • transform: Package transform provides reader and writer wrappers that transform the bytes passing through as well as various transformations.
  • unicode/norm: Package norm contains types and functions for normalizing Unicode strings.
  • unicode/rangetable: Package rangetable creates new unicode.RangeTables.
  • width: Package width provides functionality for handling different widths in text.

This repository was previously available at https://code.google.com/p/go.text/

There are three methods to install golang-golang-x-text-dev 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-golang-x-text-dev 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-golang-x-text-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install golang-golang-x-text-dev

Install golang-golang-x-text-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install golang-golang-x-text-dev

Install golang-golang-x-text-dev 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-golang-x-text-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install golang-golang-x-text-dev

How To Uninstall golang-golang-x-text-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the golang-golang-x-text-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove golang-golang-x-text-dev

Uninstall golang-golang-x-text-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove golang-golang-x-text-dev

Remove golang-golang-x-text-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge golang-golang-x-text-dev

Remove golang-golang-x-text-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge golang-golang-x-text-dev

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Summary

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