How to Install and Uninstall protobuf-compiler Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "protobuf-compiler" package

Please follow the guidance below to install protobuf-compiler on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                protobuf-compiler
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "protobuf-compiler" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall protobuf-compiler on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: protobuf-compiler
Priority: extra
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 69
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Edmonds
Architecture: amd64
Source: protobuf
Version: 2.6.1-1.3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libprotoc9v5 (= 2.6.1-1.3), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Filename: pool/main/p/protobuf/protobuf-compiler_2.6.1-1.3_amd64.deb
Size: 20394
MD5sum: f117481532220e1bee3e01fec2b9cbc5
SHA1: 2d6eef35c87ef5c3aacd1aa5d01938773a16a7c6
SHA256: a1feae94d776b383a6e6cfc16a1cea1db245b264060f076702a42bfdabb019b3
Description-en: compiler for protocol buffer definition files
Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for
serializing structured data - similar to XML, but smaller, faster, and
simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can
use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured
data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages.
You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs
that are compiled against the "old" format.
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Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and
file formats.
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This package contains the protocol buffer compiler that is used for
translating from .proto files (containing the definitions) to the language
binding for the supported languages.
Description-md5: 1054ab94728e41bc0d59a82d40d1611e
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m