How To Install golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev
golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev is:
The Go language provides an internal testing library, named testing, which is relatively slim due to the fact that the standard library correctness by itself is verified using it. The check package, on the other hand, expects the standard library from Go to be working correctly, and builds on it to offer a richer testing framework for libraries and applications to use.
Package “gopkg.in/check.v1” includes features such as:
- Helpful error reporting to aid on figuring problems out
- Richer test helpers: assertions which interrupt the test immediately,
deep multi-type comparisons, string matching, etc
- Suite-based grouping of tests
- Fixtures: per suite and/or per test set up and tear down
- Benchmarks integrated in the suite logic (with fixtures, etc)
- Management of temporary directories
- Panic-catching logic, with proper error reporting
- Proper counting of successes, failures, panics, missed tests, skips, etc
- Explicit test skipping
- Support for expected failures
- Verbosity flag which disables output caching (helpful to debug hanging
tests, for instance)
- Multi-line string reporting for more comprehensible failures
- Inclusion of comments surrounding checks on failure reports
- Fully tested (it manages to test itself reliably)
There are three methods to install golang-gopkg-check.v1-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-gopkg-check.v1-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-gopkg-check.v1-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev
Install golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev
Install golang-gopkg-check.v1-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-gopkg-check.v1-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev
How To Uninstall golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev
Uninstall golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall golang-gopkg-check.v1-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-gopkg-check.v1-dev
Remove golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev Configurations and Data
To remove golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev
Remove golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-gopkg-check.v1-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
