Complete Guide: Installing wiringpi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) 2024

1. Install "wiringpi" package

Please follow the steps below to install wiringpi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall wiringpi on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: wiringpi
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.50-0ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Dave Jones
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 57
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libwiringpi2
Filename: pool/universe/w/wiringpi/wiringpi_2.50-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 18144
MD5sum: 1f6f2edf0cea207df0cf98a14769d82a
SHA1: 06a84b6e22951dab9d176c87ff20423d0856e2fa
SHA256: c73d02a22395c0c8189350b74b331c6ad142e2c430c5666153f749ce9d44a1f0
SHA512: 19ba26ea98cfac92c79fb828d7e910bbdc8cf4902e29bc47cab63e65660c4b31b25df230509d95d984e4401667c8b067738ecf619994eb39512bee0c6b758ff7
Homepage: https://wiringpi.com/
Description-en: Raspberry Pi tool for controlling GPIO devices
A command line utility for querying and controlling the GPIO pins from the
shell.
Description-md5: 0fb54ff99d43c54a72b5f4d525d57fd0