How To Install golang-src on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-src on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is golang-src
golang-src 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 standard library source code, which is needed for the go build process.
There are three methods to install golang-src 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-src 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-src using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install golang-src
Install golang-src Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install golang-src using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install golang-src
Install golang-src 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-src using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install golang-src
How To Uninstall golang-src on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the golang-src package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove golang-src
Uninstall golang-src And Its Dependencies
To uninstall golang-src and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove golang-src
Remove golang-src Configurations and Data
To remove golang-src configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge golang-src
Remove golang-src configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove golang-src configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge golang-src
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install golang-src package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
