How to Install and Uninstall nim Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "nim" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install nim on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall nim on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: nim
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.4.6+really1.4.2-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Federico Ceratto
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 12421
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libssl1.1
Recommends: build-essential, gcc, git
Suggests: nim-doc
Filename: pool/universe/n/nim/nim_1.4.6+really1.4.2-2_amd64.deb
Size: 3225016
MD5sum: 74ce189c9ce5a7fc1b9c87dc1b459414
SHA1: c6d8c3ab0ea4cb1e1a8b53f7eb7a46663e428487
SHA256: 270ff5daf76f7076de66fb75b89e55aa53f578e346fe22dcb86b696c251f3fd7
SHA512: c5c01ef91d83a35f08582f5de60e8acba17e71df2171e237b571ae3ae11dc123f83f9a273322f413b05efcd0a1c1f55a481e52b664948c1a1a0b1c4118ba32ca
Homepage: https://nim-lang.org/
Description-en: Nim programming language - compiler
Nim is a statically typed, imperative programming language that generates
native code via compilation to C. It provides a non-tracing GC, high level
datatypes and local type inference, and bindings to a lot of C libraries.
Description-md5: 1077ec624ad7f485ec20529f4e9db6d8