How To Install gccgo-go on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gccgo-go on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gccgo-go
gccgo-go 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.
Installing this package will install the gccgo implementation as /usr/bin/go. It conflicts with golang-go.
There are three methods to install gccgo-go 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 gccgo-go Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gccgo-go using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gccgo-go
Install gccgo-go Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gccgo-go using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gccgo-go
Install gccgo-go 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 gccgo-go using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gccgo-go
How To Uninstall gccgo-go on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gccgo-go package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gccgo-go
Uninstall gccgo-go And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gccgo-go and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gccgo-go
Remove gccgo-go Configurations and Data
To remove gccgo-go configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gccgo-go
Remove gccgo-go configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gccgo-go configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gccgo-go
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gccgo-go package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
