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

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "libedit-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install libedit-dev on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libedit-dev on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: libedit-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.1-20191231-1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: libedit
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: LLVM Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 488
Depends: libedit2 (= 3.1-20191231-1), libbsd-dev (>= 0.1.3), libncurses-dev | libtinfo-dev
Filename: pool/main/libe/libedit/libedit-dev_3.1-20191231-1_amd64.deb
Size: 105764
MD5sum: ab5747e451a0c652063a864c24e9d9a9
SHA1: 69b9bd63ebe370b9193df7df472ed21b93b6ce12
SHA256: 616850d9af0554016cf5063e1dbfb56269a129ec07e43d4bf73f6ad0612411c2
SHA512: 3d2a6e0247521b9d17aa165d2e216b30e9fb5b56e3f41404b855e4fb913343a75e623f6701c146b1892216c50eb33fa6aa34e2343604c1d7b766f0b1223012e3
Homepage: https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
Description-en: BSD editline and history libraries (development files)
Command line editor library provides generic line editing,
history, and tokenization functions.
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It slightly resembles GNU readline.
Description-md5: d563680e6c8f51c40aea576bffaea165