How to Install and Uninstall libboost-random-dev Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "libboost-random-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libboost-random-dev on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libboost-random-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libboost-random-dev 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 libboost-random-dev package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: libboost-random-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.71.0.0ubuntu4
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: boost-defaults
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Boost Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 11
Depends: libboost-random1.71-dev
Filename: pool/universe/b/boost-defaults/libboost-random-dev_1.71.0.0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
Size: 3300
MD5sum: ee46c0ea7e291dd4119b876ca5a610b5
SHA1: 6c6e8b48ec1dbebde809d4254eb34993f62872cb
SHA256: 496d2da0618671fb976cedab81ec2fd491894efb9613688a10c39262402fea30
SHA512: 155e165667727d1096634ab9d10df2ff3195c505aca31f10b81b1413f87720bfc2e5efe774c3310591763da13730c8c90fa743d7b44cbf099ac6dc33b58eb3cb
Homepage: http://www.boost.org/libs/random/
Description-en: Boost Random Number Library (default version)
This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.
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The Boost Random Number Library (Boost.Random for short) provides a
variety of generators and distributions to produce random numbers
having useful properties, such as uniform distribution.
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This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
Boost version (currently 1.71).
Description-md5: 888a32c76141c8d52ccaa196d50627b2