How to Install and Uninstall alex Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 01,2024

1. Install "alex" package

Please follow the guidance below to install alex on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "alex" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall alex on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the alex package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: alex
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.2.5-2build1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Haskell Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1876
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libffi8ubuntu1 (>= 3.4~20200819), libgmp10
Filename: pool/universe/a/alex/alex_3.2.5-2build1_amd64.deb
Size: 366728
MD5sum: a114b1e5635a5e5a16551c391ba9bbfb
SHA1: f04280eca11db1d8d27102a0b3be75b428c65e55
SHA256: d4416e9450f317fa93e44e1cca99205067650783cc7d3247e6012bb0c5ac77d1
SHA512: 821b47fd4db500aaf01a39b77d19e96a5a8292b67d92c81aa7a37202463e0ab9398533c1a4a50cedf44000679eb8e447366e757c95da99773eac822e8129d2af
Homepage: http://www.haskell.org/alex/
Description-en: lexical analyser generator for Haskell
Alex is a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell, given a
description of the tokens to be recognised in the form of regular
expressions. It is similar to the tool lex or flex for C/C++.
Description-md5: bc94d454c7a2f43370b4ac0cf89a5863