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

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "cpio" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install cpio on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall cpio on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: cpio
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.13+dfsg-3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 368
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17)
Suggests: libarchive1
Conflicts: cpio-mt, mt-st (<< 0.6)
Replaces: cpio-mt
Filename: pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.13+dfsg-3_amd64.deb
Size: 86068
MD5sum: 0a524ee15608a5bf19e1fe245338f7b8
SHA1: 07219981289a9187ad3771295bf9ee315e76f2a7
SHA256: 97f49ce116c42de2adc1e7d5f1e8fcc8a4c50169ab0442291d309fb1ff4b5b00
SHA512: b71e3b915e103082eedf7c5fed4c022045ab1efb44b7c75ab0a300862f8edcce036a7b61c84ec3e9b80328e3436b82fe484381d3dbb5858226b501591df1de55
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
Description-en: GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files
GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying
files from one place to another. It handles a number of cpio formats
as well as reading and writing tar files.
Description-md5: 5f492bf139a41f29fd2d6fcadf43606e
Task: standard