How to Install and Uninstall libgcrypt20-dev Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "libgcrypt20-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install libgcrypt20-dev on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libgcrypt20-dev

2. Uninstall "libgcrypt20-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libgcrypt20-dev on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):

$ sudo apt remove libgcrypt20-dev $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libgcrypt20-dev package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: libgcrypt20-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.8.5-5ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: libgcrypt20
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GnuTLS Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1994
Provides: libgcrypt-dev
Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, libgcrypt20 (= 1.8.5-5ubuntu2), libgpg-error-dev
Suggests: libgcrypt20-doc
Conflicts: libgcrypt-dev
Filename: pool/main/libg/libgcrypt20/libgcrypt20-dev_1.8.5-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 471004
MD5sum: 8e901fd29c70bbd3c41c9407693a6424
SHA1: 45bb6f47f2135e2295f7dae15bdc674b47dc0c3c
SHA256: d11e750c33340fe5ab720a40d7b75340594f8ba63504a19aabcb100e0e0b5c4b
SHA512: dff41da33f2c01fb6f9a25249658a2e1ecaf3024715bed9b4ada39ded16a01dee9e30fdabefbfccc6572897af4ad56695005e28a13c0620c4f716af5273eaf7a
Homepage: https://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/
Description-en: LGPL Crypto library - development files
libgcrypt contains cryptographic functions. Many important free
ciphers, hash algorithms and public key signing algorithms have been
implemented:
.
Arcfour, Blowfish, CAST5, DES, AES, Twofish, Serpent, rfc2268 (rc2), SEED,
Poly1305, Camellia, ChaCha20, IDEA, Salsa, Blake-2, CRC, MD2, MD4, MD5,
RIPE-MD160, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512,
SHAKE128, SHAKE256, Tiger, Whirlpool, DSA, DSA2, ElGamal, RSA, ECC
(Curve25519, sec256k1, GOST R 34.10-2001 and GOST R 34.10-2012, etc.)
.
This package contains header files and libraries for static linking.
Description-md5: eae81607d7905ded877dac0f883cb51c