How to Install and Uninstall cabal-debian Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "cabal-debian" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install cabal-debian 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 "cabal-debian" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall cabal-debian on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cabal-debian package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: cabal-debian
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.0.3-1build1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Haskell Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 15520
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.29), libffi8ubuntu1 (>= 3.4~20200819), libgmp10, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: apt-file
Filename: pool/universe/c/cabal-debian/cabal-debian_5.0.3-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 2132244
MD5sum: b413b1b006449b865545c600cd255d87
SHA1: 58e66b12dc30c02abe7b2af03502cc621a34c1ab
SHA256: b4ee3d4352c80231b2afe7b41128dc33f2d6a90412d471b4eeaaaba4e406aab1
SHA512: ee14c1af822bc24fc0ea15f9f8a08c4002b5a07cd18d0644b86469b8295297f78f23df710283260da487c00725259cbf1e1b28c595d940c603a35d2bb2cf411f
Homepage: https://github.com/clinty/cabal-debian
Description-en: Create a debianization for a cabal package
Tool for creating debianizations of Haskell packages based on the .cabal
file. If apt-file is installed it will use it to discover what is the
Debian package name of a C library.
Description-md5: d5d29259cbc28631ee1c07b445c17326