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

Last updated: November 26,2024

1. Install "libserialport-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install libserialport-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libserialport-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libserialport-dev" package

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


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

Package: libserialport-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 171
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Uwe Hermann
Architecture: amd64
Source: libserialport
Version: 0.1.0-1
Depends: libserialport0 (= 0.1.0-1), libudev-dev
Filename: pool/universe/libs/libserialport/libserialport-dev_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 24444
MD5sum: 8911a973b56d9100c788b0498f0d5595
SHA1: 47194b2765da6b355c29083219f59bb3a707f21d
SHA256: 42f8dcd6122eee933918b1416c5f3cddd4bb4f3566504f6d0885884b7433ae63
Description-en: Crossplatform serial port handling library - development files
libserialport is a minimal, cross-platform shared library that is intended
to take care of the OS-specific details when writing software that uses
serial ports.
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This package contains the header files and other development files.
Description-md5: 64d301e6e849a365f73ac2d8457d1a8f
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libserialport
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu