How to Install and Uninstall antiword Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "antiword" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install antiword on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall antiword on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                antiword
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the antiword package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: antiword
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.37-16
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Olly Betts
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 589
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/universe/a/antiword/antiword_0.37-16_amd64.deb
Size: 118332
MD5sum: 975504d89a361dc61effeb641d2dbc32
SHA1: ee993816dac159d5a744c7209fa94c7b4f5d1963
SHA256: b62117f65ccca2ececa9be365ab1276d94df37fa0635217c3ec068927cf17c83
SHA512: dba3a6ee1182706c949d7303b92fc53ff7c6d43dd62f44ea5f50da0766d1900e874a935f880d05d44e27defe4b6748ba4f3421775775e294ccfc8751d9530389
Homepage: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
Description-en: Converts MS Word files to text, PS, PDF and XML
Antiword is a free MS Word reader.
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It converts the binary files from MS Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000 and 2003 to text,
Postscript, PDF and XML.
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Note that it doesn't support the XML-based formats which newer MS Word
versions produce by default (.docx).
Description-md5: 91202a9a74fb47111423e1091e439879