How To Install uuid-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. uuid-dev is Universally Unique ID library - headers and static libraries Universally Unique ID library - headers and static libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is uuid-dev

uuid-dev is:

The libuuid library generates and parses 128-bit Universally Unique IDs (UUIDs). See RFC 4122 for more information.

This package contains the development environment for the uuid library.

Package: uuid-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.34-0.1ubuntu9 Multi-Arch: same Priority: extra Section: libdevel Source: util-linux Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: LaMont Jones [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 167 Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, libuuid1 (= 2.34-0.1ubuntu9) Replaces: e2fslibs-dev (« 1.15) Filename: pool/main/u/util-linux/uuid-dev_2.34-0.1ubuntu9_amd64.deb Size: 33604 MD5sum: b842b9727df45dec54c2485758b6c725 SHA1: e871c580b7b3f31616abdebc071a472eafbf455f SHA256: 7ffcb1175040f6c37f502e4ad020a80810a7fe71760a7458ec986755332caf6c Description-en: Universally Unique ID library - headers and static libraries The libuuid library generates and parses 128-bit Universally Unique IDs (UUIDs). See RFC 4122 for more information.

This package contains the development environment for the uuid library.

There are three methods to install uuid-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 uuid-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 uuid-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install uuid-dev

Install uuid-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install uuid-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install uuid-dev

Install uuid-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 uuid-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install uuid-dev

How To Uninstall uuid-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the uuid-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove uuid-dev

Uninstall uuid-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall uuid-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove uuid-dev

Remove uuid-dev Configurations and Data

To remove uuid-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge uuid-dev

Remove uuid-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove uuid-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uuid-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.