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

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "canlock" package

This tutorial shows how to install canlock on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall canlock on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: canlock
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.1.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/news
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Florian Schlichting
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 83
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcanlock3 (>= 3.0.0)
Filename: pool/universe/c/canlock/canlock_3.1.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 24856
MD5sum: 6860d1ee2447e9da1c7b66fb17341fae
SHA1: 5245af247259077f6efa04c4346a89be5443ef34
SHA256: 779e5718b4d29b128095686d9dc3c34240eaa4d24df897668d37eced5599f032
SHA512: 023065b682b1f83ebd5981994177e3406e576e0ceb7832e6c89084aefb695816564b38d95994cb16730e3c46edd19d83abf105e556b274219dd4fe07d871d568
Homepage: https://micha.freeshell.org/libcanlock/
Description-en: utilities for creating and verifying Usenet cancel locks
Cancel locks are used by Usenet article posters to authenticate their
authorship of an article. It may then by used by servers to prevent
cancel and supersede abuse. The use of this feature remains the
newsmaster's decision.
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This package contains a simple utility wrapping the canlock library,
which may be used for both the generation and the verification of
cancel locks, along with a message header parser and a header field
parser.
Description-md5: c2b527a480458f2c74799269b689025b