How to Install and Uninstall distro-info Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "distro-info" package

This tutorial shows how to install distro-info on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                distro-info
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "distro-info" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall distro-info on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                distro-info
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the distro-info package on Kali Linux

Package: distro-info
Version: 1.7
Installed-Size: 74
Maintainer: Benjamin Drung
Architecture: amd64
Depends: distro-info-data (>= 0.59~), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: shunit2
Size: 18640
SHA256: 8ef4ab69d43df3ffd5f1855a80940b0d87865d2aa6c146d734cdb96503d3cfb2
SHA1: 152c61211235482c1c04a74548df22a06b212254
MD5sum: ba1a3e4224d061c756ea748cab3e2d69
Description: provides information about the distributions' releases
Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script
will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your
distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the
debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts.
Description-md5:
Tag: devel::debian, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/distro-info/distro-info_1.7_amd64.deb