Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install binutils-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is binutils-dev
binutils-dev is:
This package includes header files and static libraries necessary to build
programs which use the GNU BFD library, which is part of binutils. Note
that building Debian packages which depend on the shared libbfd is Not
Allowed.
Package: binutils-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.34-6ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: devel
Source: binutils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klose [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 29317
Provides: libbfd-dev
Depends: binutils (= 2.34-6ubuntu1), libbinutils (= 2.34-6ubuntu1), libctf0 (= 2.34-6ubuntu1), libctf-nobfd0 (= 2.34-6ubuntu1)
Conflicts: libbfd-dev
Replaces: libbfd-dev, libc5-dev
Filename: pool/main/b/binutils/binutils-dev_2.34-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 3639476
MD5sum: b66ccf8c72ca18147cffcb4d8e5faba4
SHA1: e50191b72e640db9507f752ba065bd73e6827426
SHA256: 73b7742d55069e67da83ba124af1a2726db1a7a36ec97ef7eab40d94e6474eea
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
Description-en: GNU binary utilities (BFD development files)
This package includes header files and static libraries necessary to build
programs which use the GNU BFD library, which is part of binutils. Note
that building Debian packages which depend on the shared libbfd is Not
Allowed.
There are three methods to install binutils-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install binutils-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install binutils-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install binutils-dev
Install binutils-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install binutils-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install binutils-dev
Install binutils-dev Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install binutils-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install binutils-dev
How To Uninstall binutils-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the binutils-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove binutils-dev
Uninstall binutils-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall binutils-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove binutils-dev
Remove binutils-dev Configurations and Data
To remove binutils-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge binutils-dev
Remove binutils-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove binutils-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge binutils-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install binutils-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
