How to Install and Uninstall flex-old Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 01,2024

1. Install "flex-old" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install flex-old on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                flex-old
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "flex-old" package

Learn how to uninstall flex-old on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                flex-old
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the flex-old package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: flex-old
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 464
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Tommi Vainikainen
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.5.4a-10ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Recommends: gcc | c-compiler
Suggests: bison
Conflicts: flex, libfl-dev
Filename: pool/universe/f/flex-old/flex-old_2.5.4a-10ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 178912
MD5sum: 955b84d21b01b1ba340aa291f849f0a8
SHA1: 6052b9e9cd6012975a8afd46eb7ff4d05519c6c7
SHA256: 1f384dc0809eb487285a492549e9e3e6d4632433c4faea24f196ae2d287d6b9b
Description-en: Old version of the fast lexical analyzer generator
flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize lexical
patterns in text. This is the old 2.5.4a version, which is no longer
being developed. You should normally choose flex, unless you have
legacy lexer files that do not work with a modern flex.
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This product includes software developed by the University of California,
Berkeley and its contributors. The upstream source code can be found at
http://flex.sourceforge.net/
Description-md5: 635ae580015e71b2feeb1332050a361a
Homepage: http://flex.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu