How to Install and Uninstall golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure-dev" package

Please follow the guidance below to install golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure-dev" package

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


    
        
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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 golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 78
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team
Architecture: all
Source: golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure
Version: 0.0~git20150717.0.281073e-2
Depends: golang-go | gccgo
Filename: pool/universe/g/golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure/golang-github-mitchellh-mapstructure-dev_0.0~git20150717.0.281073e-2_all.deb
Size: 14470
MD5sum: ff6f899bf9ce17c1d19de038bc44b27f
SHA1: 11f27310a3f1df805d5cf13df6e442a31ea8db4d
SHA256: 3da1cdc6daac15e75b8759f4ae69d37b4d44253ce4c18c2dc100e9c58aa279cb
Description-en: library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures
mapstructure is a Go library for decoding generic map values to structures and
vice versa, while providing helpful error handling.
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This library is most useful when decoding values from some data stream (JSON,
Gob, etc.) where you don't quite know the structure of the underlying data
until you read a part of it. You can therefore read a map[string]interface{}
and use this library to decode it into the proper underlying native Go
structure.
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Go offers fantastic standard libraries for decoding formats such as JSON. The
standard method is to have a struct pre-created, and populate that struct from
the bytes of the encoded format. This is great, but the problem is if you have
configuration or an encoding that changes slightly depending on specific
fields.
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Perhaps we can't populate a specific structure without first reading the "type"
field from the JSON. We could always do two passes over the decoding of the
JSON (reading the "type" first, and the rest later). However, it is much
simpler to just decode this into a map[string]interface{} structure, read the
"type" key, then use something like this library to decode it into the proper
structure.
Description-md5: 795ba6f76c1759ba503b27c28cac9396
Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.5.3-1ubuntu1)
Homepage: https://github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu