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

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "libsodium-dev" package

Please follow the guidance below to install libsodium-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

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


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

Package: libsodium-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.18-1build1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: libsodium
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 798
Depends: libsodium23 (= 1.0.18-1build1)
Filename: pool/main/libs/libsodium/libsodium-dev_1.0.18-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 185236
MD5sum: 924afced36857614fbd0d220adc8e9d0
SHA1: 3f93803e01f3603d47da6059d0c1c30504449c6a
SHA256: 6efb25a1cadbb32edd53d930ad9dfb6278ec141cc4f88438c989bbd162491ce9
SHA512: 1c57a65c0e85824bd1fc0563f5fc62cf209a3a04b3d9f39a2ad6ae4fce65ff96e3e75fbafa4ab8235a6978d244b6703532e0d7f414487e16026786d61f186203
Homepage: https://www.libsodium.org/
Description-en: Network communication, cryptography and signaturing library - headers
NaCl (pronounced "salt") is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for
network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc.
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NaCl's goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build
higher-level cryptographic tools.
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Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl,
with a compatible API.
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This package provides development headers needed for applications that use
libsodium.
Description-md5: cae8e20dbbff5c7b1b3bf306d7ea03fa