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Trying to figure out what exactly "gobjc" installs, I did:

sudo dpkg -L gobjc and got a path to /usr/share/doc/gobjc

Did : sudo apt-file list gobjc and got a path to /usr/share/doc/gobjc

on this directory you can only find text files that are .gz compress, I was expecting to find some .a, .o or any kind of file that actually process code as this package is used to compile objective-c code

jccastro
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Take a look at apt show gobjc:

Depends: cpp (>= 4:8.3.0-1), gcc (>= 4:8.3.0-1), gobjc-8 (>= 8.3.0-1~)
Description:
 This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Objective-C compiler.

The actual compiler gets installed through the gobjc-8 package:

$ apt-file list gobjc-8
gobjc-8: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/cc1obj

It is not a standalone tool – only a backend that will be automatically used by the gcc frontend whenever you try to compile an Obj-C source file.

grawity
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