How to Install and Uninstall lintian Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "lintian" package

This is a short guide on how to install lintian on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "lintian" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall lintian on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                lintian
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lintian package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: lintian
Architecture: all
Version: 2.5.81ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 4101
Depends: binutils, bzip2, diffstat, dpkg (>= 1.17.14), file, gettext, intltool-debian, libapt-pkg-perl, libarchive-zip-perl, libclass-accessor-perl, libclone-perl, libdigest-sha-perl, libdpkg-perl, libemail-valid-perl, libfile-basedir-perl, libipc-run-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl, libparse-debianchangelog-perl, libtext-levenshtein-perl, libtimedate-perl, liburi-perl, libyaml-libyaml-perl, libxml-simple-perl, man-db, patchutils, perl, t1utils, xz-utils
Recommends: libperlio-gzip-perl
Suggests: binutils-multiarch, dpkg-dev, libhtml-parser-perl, libtext-template-perl
Breaks: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-5.1), pkg-perl-tools (<< 0.23)
Replaces: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-5.1)
Filename: pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.5.81ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 847312
MD5sum: 277ba0cc7d9c3edbf59062f09bd61d42
SHA1: e46b22ca514df9000acbc35857bd721b73aa5bf7
SHA256: 3493460b201c8c22ccbc731b62119c4a0a62458d039f037c4472e8082fbed65b
Homepage: https://lintian.debian.org/
Description: Debian package checker
Description-md5: a72ecfbc429766b87cc248c476f5d443
Task: ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Supported: 5y