How to Install and Uninstall nim Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: July 08,2024

Deprecated! Installation of this package may no longer be supported.

You can also install and uninstall the nim on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "nim" package

Please follow the guidance below to install nim on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "nim" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall nim on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the nim package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: nim
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Federico Ceratto
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 13886
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libssl1.1
Recommends: build-essential, gcc, git
Suggests: nim-doc
Filename: pool/universe/n/nim/nim_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 4059138
MD5sum: 80618c51415e36d27811403e0dcc18e2
SHA1: 8cbd6cf5f266b90e13cf4141421ddd261e23b641
SHA256: e57b81c87ae2738cd6423a2dd4bc3bd16ebd84cb886868450d2ca7e41c3659ca
SHA512: 13e34e0903cfd08f1c3f69d2b0fdd6fd5320f5df28783e19f6bd20a51c8f1afaaf8400a647c8fae4ec9439e476e175c1168bafc4307d2fd36cb3a140064b8a67
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