How to Install and Uninstall distro-info Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "distro-info" package

Please follow the instructions below to install distro-info on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall distro-info on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: distro-info
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.23ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Drung
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 68
Depends: distro-info-data (>= 0.39ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.7)
Suggests: shunit2 (>= 2.1.6)
Breaks: ubuntu-dev-tools (<< 0.133~)
Replaces: ubuntu-dev-tools (<< 0.127~)
Filename: pool/main/d/distro-info/distro-info_0.23ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 17092
MD5sum: 8f5a294e834d451982052b01dd8a7014
SHA1: 4b572236dff494df93730c2ca93dd3f6f5a5a24a
SHA256: fdd75ba1f4b30b2fa5f1f8b409a3e30297db688e30b1681b125285a9323aa476
SHA512: 9a1d955e3d267fcdfa9aff687a8d01102daccb214d97da0bf122266bca87a17891d1042b12435ea23b49e36f6ec777f1bc0626c7a8b411e435a93ade43132d1f
Description-en: 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: 5671943e370fd3dd7449d885e6363cee
Task: server-raspi, ubuntu-desktop-raspi