How to Install and Uninstall libc6-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "libc6-dev" package

This guide let you learn how to install libc6-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libc6-dev

2. Uninstall "libc6-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libc6-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove libc6-dev $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libc6-dev package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libc6-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.33-0ubuntu5
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: glibc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 14571
Provides: libc-dev
Depends: libc6 (= 2.33-0ubuntu5), libc-dev-bin (= 2.33-0ubuntu5), linux-libc-dev, libcrypt-dev, rpcsvc-proto, libtirpc-dev, libnsl-dev
Suggests: glibc-doc, manpages-dev
Conflicts: libc0.1-dev, libc0.3-dev, libc6.1-dev
Breaks: libc6-dev-amd64-cross (<< 2.33~), libgcc-10-dev (<< 10-20200321-1~), libgcc-7-dev (<< 7.5.0-6~), libgcc-8-dev (<< 8.4.0-2~), libgcc-9-dev (<< 9.3.0-5~), libperl5.26 (<< 5.26.1-3), python3.7 (<< 3.7.7-1+b1), python3.8 (<< 3.8.2-1+b1)
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.33-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb
Size: 2143056
MD5sum: 8b126894aad2277fd18d24ac7d9bd090
SHA1: 7ae840c6515a101d24e89caea905683304d6a14c
SHA256: 6521ad1a16b0a4a29ef80ecefa9865e9acd0d394ea93bafb9ff1df0b18a9198e
SHA512: 7bcb26b104e709842398645886c54403b6b5f884596f252e28189a897a1a157995d058af71ad59359b256137a1a51e5907bea676a9d8e333cc2657bc53586f43
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Description-en: GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile
and link programs which use the standard C library.
Description-md5: 1bbdc717d9acdb44db940928d570e749
Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
Original-Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc
Original-Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc.git
Build-Essential: yes