How to Install and Uninstall flex-old Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "flex-old" package

This is a short guide on how to install flex-old on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                flex-old
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "flex-old" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall flex-old on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                flex-old
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the flex-old package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: flex-old
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.5.4a-10ubuntu2
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Tommi Vainikainen
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 445
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Recommends: gcc | c-compiler
Suggests: bison
Conflicts: flex, libfl-dev
Filename: pool/universe/f/flex-old/flex-old_2.5.4a-10ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 165268
MD5sum: 996d5b260b380d7feb2ddbf4c7ebade2
SHA1: c2cf2fa955714767009672465fa8add8d10089b4
SHA256: 5079bd5a8f91ae3f7f4ae8370909699dd2b6d5e351782b513d03c3ac7d0bd6e0
Homepage: http://flex.sourceforge.net/
Description: Old version of the fast lexical analyzer generator
Description-md5: 635ae580015e71b2feeb1332050a361a