How to Install and Uninstall libsodium-dev Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "libsodium-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libsodium-dev on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libsodium-dev" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall libsodium-dev on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


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

Package: libsodium-dev
Source: libsodium
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 792
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.18-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
Depends: libsodium23 (= 1.0.18-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)
Filename: pool/main/libs/libsodium/libsodium-dev_1.0.18-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1_amd64.deb
Size: 169692
MD5sum: 892b196b8d62f37e5f197934faf01851
SHA1: c741a085569c29e6a07216acc6b2fb0477101196
SHA256: cb880db806c25f6917226ae0ab5bf97e2fd2a8fd20dd4fd5168b16c6b29a97cb
Description: Network communication, cryptography and signaturing library - headers
Description-md5: cae8e20dbbff5c7b1b3bf306d7ea03fa
Multi-Arch: same

Package: libsodium-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.16-2
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: libsodium
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 742
Depends: libsodium23 (= 1.0.16-2)
Filename: pool/main/libs/libsodium/libsodium-dev_1.0.16-2_amd64.deb
Size: 160496
MD5sum: 272b99bc4d8e3143f42a3755d39a8602
SHA1: 5c948abc4a17872e1cd81f98f65dca346b7c8610
SHA256: bcd2b6427252cd9c0eff68662f4ceb81f21ff74239ed01f56694b1e3f0a75649
Homepage: http://www.libsodium.org/
Description: Network communication, cryptography and signaturing library - headers
Description-md5: cae8e20dbbff5c7b1b3bf306d7ea03fa
Supported: 5y