How to Install and Uninstall protoc-gen-go Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "protoc-gen-go" package

Please follow the instructions below to install protoc-gen-go on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                protoc-gen-go
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "protoc-gen-go" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall protoc-gen-go on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: protoc-gen-go
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.25.0+git20201208.160c747-1
Built-Using: golang-1.15 (= 1.15.4-1ubuntu1), golang-github-google-go-cmp (= 0.5.4-1), golang-golang-x-xerrors (= 0.0~git20191204.9bdfabe-1)
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Source: golang-google-protobuf
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 5953
Depends: libprotobuf-dev, protobuf-compiler
Conflicts: golang-goprotobuf-dev
Filename: pool/universe/g/golang-google-protobuf/protoc-gen-go_1.25.0+git20201208.160c747-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1734824
MD5sum: 1bae94942f085ed7a1a857b2eeef995e
SHA1: 689327a23125115f03a0f46f39812b0a241c986a
SHA256: 7aaed78a30819d9c64f296c0c89062b2605b885a490b17fcc30c9f5f96dbe1b2
SHA512: 7aa1bfcef595c57b1a199850363e17f1a5ab534ce15fd1b0fb6d450af36d8d916b5820a8e670517cdd190a0115173128efceddb78413160cc3f21d875264a2e0
Homepage: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf-go
Description-en: Go support for Protocol Buffers (protoc compiler plugin)
It augments the protoc compiler so that it knows how to generate Go
specific code for a given .proto file.
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This plugin is provided google.golang.org/protobuf module, aka the
second major revision of the Go protocol buffer API. Compared to
the old protoc-gen-go plugin (in golang-goprotobuf-dev package)
provided by github.com/golang/protobuf module, it doesn't support
generating gRPC service definitions.
Description-md5: 35ae435f533eaf1407075f2b1a2992c9