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

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "libsodium-dev" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libsodium-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libsodium-dev" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall libsodium-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: libsodium-dev
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 896
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Source: libsodium
Version: 1.0.8-5
Depends: libsodium18 (= 1.0.8-5)
Filename: pool/universe/libs/libsodium/libsodium-dev_1.0.8-5_amd64.deb
Size: 152804
MD5sum: 97a146407c89abf20832f2e67e00698e
SHA1: 5b0e120913ae5d63c70c7130468bf0f73aab6461
SHA256: a2e42c67d5788509a8a768805f92a423211a88f492110f4ea22b4bef1e8a55e7
Description-en: Network communication, cryptography and signaturing library - headers
NaCl (pronounced "salt") is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for
network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc.
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NaCl's goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build
higher-level cryptographic tools.
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Sodium is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl,
with a compatible API.
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This package provides development headers needed for applications that use
libsodium.
Description-md5: cae8e20dbbff5c7b1b3bf306d7ea03fa
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.libsodium.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m