How to Install and Uninstall mingw-w64-tools Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "mingw-w64-tools" package

Please follow the guidance below to install mingw-w64-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mingw-w64-tools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall mingw-w64-tools on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mingw-w64-tools package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: mingw-w64-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.0.0-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Source: mingw-w64
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Stephen Kitt
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1183
Provides: pkg-config-mingw-w64-i686, pkg-config-mingw-w64-x86-64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), pkg-config
Filename: pool/universe/m/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-tools_8.0.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 248012
MD5sum: ac4e73b1f376fdfe92daac0cf86aec0e
SHA1: 056c64d2f39178f55cfa7b00eb40af6eda2366fa
SHA256: cc70280b371a2dd617139b97eee0193774f91ccddf00030db376a4a700552007
SHA512: 51595e674eb874737c1aece16baa920cd3fcf711b7bd5db48031585e7ac6af71df164038eb34f81c3ecbf4a059482bc4834eb8d01be36447c06a826b996c4dba
Homepage: http://mingw-w64.sf.net
Description-en: Development tools for 32- and 64-bit Windows
MinGW-w64 provides a development and runtime environment for 32- and
64-bit (x86 and x64) Windows applications using the Windows API and
the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc).
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This package contains:
* gendef, which extracts DLL exports from Windows executables;
* genidl, which extracts IDL information from Windows executables;
* genpeimg, which manipulates PE flags in Windows executables;
* widl, which generates build files from IDL descriptions;
* pkg-config symlinks to allow .pc-based libraries to be used.
Description-md5: e51ae65009b54dc317e276561f73ef47