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

Last updated: February 03,2025

1. Install "golang-gogoprotobuf-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install golang-gogoprotobuf-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "golang-gogoprotobuf-dev" package

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

Package: golang-gogoprotobuf-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 65850
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: pkg-go
Architecture: amd64
Source: golang-gogoprotobuf
Version: 0.0~git20150828.0.6cab0cc-1
Depends: protobuf-compiler
Filename: pool/universe/g/golang-gogoprotobuf/golang-gogoprotobuf-dev_0.0~git20150828.0.6cab0cc-1_amd64.deb
Size: 4926168
MD5sum: 815c0a3eb46df247ab0d8ef1d1af9b8c
SHA1: 7549562a13556d40b72d15b0a2e2afbccee1b1d9
SHA256: 98afd7a9a4809b432e1364335b5c06b3dac792ac06caba0ee98db8ace24a2b93
Description-en: Alternative protocol buffer support for the Go programming language
An alternative protocol buffer support for the Go programming language,
forked from golang-goprotobuf. It is backwards compatible with
goprotobuf, but provides faster marshalling and unmarshalling and can
generate extra helper code, tests and benchmarks.
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This package contains the source.
Description-md5: 02b97a5e629d5812cc7a7d39a8d491cf
Homepage: https://github.com/gogo/protobuf
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu