How to Install and Uninstall golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: March 18,2025

1. Install "golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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3. Information about the golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 224
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team
Architecture: all
Source: golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack
Version: 0.0~git20150518-1
Depends: golang-gopkg-vmihailenco-msgpack.v2-dev, golang-gopkg-mgo.v2-dev
Filename: pool/universe/g/golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack/golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev_0.0~git20150518-1_all.deb
Size: 42446
MD5sum: f515cc174d561383157ebab793c780b9
SHA1: 7f95e62873219cfc89b477cd5748cfa8a85b6481
SHA256: 422053162b498a20644f37bc56e1206937985a71bb7bafa112f4fa864f1981da
Description-en: encode/decode and rpc library for msgpack and Binc
High Performance, Feature-Rich Idiomatic Go codec/encoding library
for binc, msgpack, cbor, json. The idiomatic Go support is as seen
in other encoding packages in the standard library (ie json, xml, gob, etc).
Description-md5: c7909a8d3442189a3e0dd8c9c2efd7b7
Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.4.2-3ubuntu2), golang-gopkg-mgo.v2 (= 2015.06.03-2), golang-gopkg-vmihailenco-msgpack.v2 (= 2.3-1)
Homepage: https://github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu