How to Install and Uninstall cruft-ng Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "cruft-ng" package

Please follow the steps below to install cruft-ng on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                cruft-ng
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "cruft-ng" package

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


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

Package: cruft-ng
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 92
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alexandre Detiste
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.4.4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), mlocate, cruft-common
Filename: pool/universe/c/cruft-ng/cruft-ng_0.4.4_amd64.deb
Size: 30778
MD5sum: eb1e01665ae9f602fe5b503d8421f012
SHA1: bf43334521ccd4cf06c3656ba4bf34038460b1fe
SHA256: 314fb83dcde6388d4aa1063fb272fe73c2939830bbd139ec1816bf7d697ce50a
Description-en: program that finds any cruft built up on your system
cruft-ng is a program to look over your system for anything that shouldn't
be there, but is; or for anything that should be there, but isn't.
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It bases most of its results on dpkg's & mlocate's databases.
Description-md5: a7d051d9782d9e3e3ac163bf87c26c89
Homepage: https://github.com/a-detiste/cruft-ng/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu