How to Install and Uninstall golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 189
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: pkg-go
Architecture: all
Source: golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql
Version: 1.2-1
Filename: pool/universe/g/golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql/golang-github-go-sql-driver-mysql-dev_1.2-1_all.deb
Size: 35862
MD5sum: 17ecec8a009548876a2f3490c9f9a56f
SHA1: 0eacb97a423ef208e6c79a9417c53e80bf4e45c3
SHA256: 859773f049080226db278ea69d0945c16dddf0c1b1b9762fd69511d04983f697
Description-en: MySQL-Driver for Go's database/sql package
Features:
- Lightweight and fast
- Native Go implementation. No C-bindings, just pure Go
- Connections over TCP/IPv4, TCP/IPv6 or Unix domain sockets
- Automatic handling of broken connections
- Automatic Connection Pooling (by database/sql package)
- Supports queries larger than 16MB
- Full sql.RawBytes support.
- Intelligent LONG DATA handling in prepared statements
- Secure LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE support with file Whitelisting and io.Reader
support
- Optional time.Time parsing
- Optional placeholder interpolation
Description-md5: fa08b137bb0317b88861910c6b6ac8ee
Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.4.2-3ubuntu2)
Homepage: https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu