How to Install and Uninstall libsodium23 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "libsodium23" package

This tutorial shows how to install libsodium23 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libsodium23
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libsodium23" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libsodium23 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libsodium23
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libsodium23 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libsodium23
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 398
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: same
Source: libsodium
Version: 1.0.18-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Description: Network communication, cryptography and signaturing library
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.
Description-md5: 0affde5b96740664a1c3f33fe4ca7e9f
Homepage: https://www.libsodium.org/