How To Install libprotobuf-c-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotobuf-c-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libprotobuf-c-dev
libprotobuf-c-dev is:
Protocol Buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data - similar to XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the “old” format.
This is the “protobuf-c” implementation of Protocol Buffers in C.
This package contains the static library and development headers.
There are three methods to install libprotobuf-c-dev
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 libprotobuf-c-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 libprotobuf-c-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprotobuf-c-dev
Install libprotobuf-c-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprotobuf-c-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprotobuf-c-dev
Install libprotobuf-c-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 libprotobuf-c-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprotobuf-c-dev
How To Uninstall libprotobuf-c-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libprotobuf-c-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprotobuf-c-dev
Uninstall libprotobuf-c-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprotobuf-c-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprotobuf-c-dev
Remove libprotobuf-c-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libprotobuf-c-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprotobuf-c-dev
Remove libprotobuf-c-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprotobuf-c-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprotobuf-c-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotobuf-c-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.