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

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "libyaml-dev" package

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


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libyaml-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: libyaml-dev
Priority: extra
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 265
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Anders Kaseorg
Architecture: amd64
Source: libyaml
Version: 0.1.6-3
Depends: libyaml-0-2 (= 0.1.6-3)
Suggests: libyaml-doc
Filename: pool/main/liby/libyaml/libyaml-dev_0.1.6-3_amd64.deb
Size: 55168
MD5sum: f6b1469657637adcdfb2c0d79edaee6c
SHA1: 6d7ff83af859f3858fb52fba0d319f09129978b1
SHA256: b965f607e607f9d8a43349bc7ef32ccfc12644a5e0862c38ce8f433f77af09d7
Description-en: Fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library (development)
LibYAML is a C library for parsing and emitting data in YAML 1.1, a
human-readable data serialization format.
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This package contains development headers and static libraries.
Description-md5: 6a835b3e1ea55d4191038017f1855f58
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m