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protoc3 on Ubuntu
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| I am on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS. | |
| $ lsb_release -a | |
| No LSB modules are available. | |
| Distributor ID: Ubuntu | |
| Description: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS | |
| Release: 16.04 | |
| Codename: xenial | |
| I wanted to install latest protoc (which at the time of writing this is version 3.6.1). | |
| Running apt-get (as whoen below) installed version 2.6.1 | |
| $ sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler | |
| $ sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev | |
| $ protoc --version | |
| libprotoc 2.6.1 | |
| Getting latest protoc on Ubuntu is easy. Following are the instructions. | |
| 1. Find the latest release or the release you want at https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases | |
| 2. Locate your release and download it. I am getting 3.6.1 | |
| $ wget https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v3.6.1/protoc-3.6.1-linux-x86_64.zip | |
| 3. Unzip it | |
| $ unzip protoc-3.6.1-linux-x86_64.zip -d protoc-3.6.1 | |
| 4. $ cd protoc-3.6.1/bin | |
| 5. $ ./protoc --version | |
| libprotoc 3.6.1 | |
| 6. move protoc the binary to appropriate bin directory. | |
| Generate descriptor files. | |
| $ protoc --descriptor_set_out=./descriptors.protoset \ | |
| --include_source_info \ | |
| --include_imports -I. po.proto | |
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