How to Install and Uninstall libc6-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "libc6-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install libc6-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libc6-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libc6-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libc6-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libc6-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libc6-dev package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: libc6-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.34-0ubuntu3
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: 11450
Provides: libc-dev
Depends: libc6 (= 2.34-0ubuntu3), libc-dev-bin (= 2.34-0ubuntu3), 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 (<< 2.34~), 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_2.34-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 1885976
MD5sum: 4e850fe32ca4284e3c9523fbb012f86a
SHA1: 6370590271d11f0558560d64030cbc1b4fb7a6d5
SHA256: 6b4e22bcd7bb2472dffde088603b9f8f0cb8670b3e03b6675c0eafddd684c8cf
SHA512: 241789c0b3cd4da2885d3c16db8b237a75a7f0c2d550926f989713a5e8e481e9c612ac052cd1f249ebee03facb856a79ae61e629b0811bea44ac2635d318ac37
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