How to Install and Uninstall gobject-introspection Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "gobject-introspection" package

Please follow the guidance below to install gobject-introspection on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "gobject-introspection" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall gobject-introspection on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: gobject-introspection
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 1381
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.46.0-3ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libffi6 (>= 3.0.4), libgirepository-1.0-1 (= 1.46.0-3ubuntu1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.45.3), python:any, build-essential, python-mako
Filename: pool/main/g/gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection_1.46.0-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 255938
MD5sum: 8352186d195cff6a8bfab8288cc83491
SHA1: a0fec82e84c273a3bf490479b4edf304f23d8dec
SHA256: 5370b871f6c10bed0c6b549c7102b6667656b669cfff547096fbbc0944a3b53a
Description-en: Generate interface introspection data for GObject libraries
GObject Introspection is a project for providing machine readable
introspection data of the API of C libraries. This introspection
data can be used in several different use cases, for example
automatic code generation for bindings, API verification and documentation
generation.
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GObject Introspection contains tools to generate and handle the
introspection data.
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This package contains tools for extracting introspection data from libraries
and transforming it to different formats.
Description-md5: 237f5e120c510b5b463f0799b240157e
Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m