How To Install libprotobuf-c1-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotobuf-c1-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libprotobuf-c1-dbg
libprotobuf-c1-dbg 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 detached debugging symbols for the shared library.
There are three methods to install libprotobuf-c1-dbg 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 libprotobuf-c1-dbg 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-c1-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprotobuf-c1-dbg
Install libprotobuf-c1-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprotobuf-c1-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprotobuf-c1-dbg
Install libprotobuf-c1-dbg 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-c1-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprotobuf-c1-dbg
How To Uninstall libprotobuf-c1-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libprotobuf-c1-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprotobuf-c1-dbg
Uninstall libprotobuf-c1-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprotobuf-c1-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprotobuf-c1-dbg
Remove libprotobuf-c1-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libprotobuf-c1-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprotobuf-c1-dbg
Remove libprotobuf-c1-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprotobuf-c1-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprotobuf-c1-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprotobuf-c1-dbg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
