How to Install and Uninstall fl-cow Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 25,2024

1. Install "fl-cow" package

This guide let you learn how to install fl-cow on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fl-cow
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fl-cow" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall fl-cow on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: fl-cow
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.6-4.2
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Collins
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 59
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/universe/f/fl-cow/fl-cow_0.6-4.2_amd64.deb
Size: 6574
MD5sum: dc78663c0bbb0857b74c8d1b8b1bee83
SHA1: ffd97b8631412e5029a34bba88eb56759cd848e3
SHA256: 834031fc7e4f2c9754cbbd1dfcb7572182a87773871ec48a77e14a44dc6f7724
SHA512: 6554faf583c323f3c55419366213cf57b0e5d66147dd07f7bc3e8c99b39709ac5bcc86aca3c948394b79afe3e46af2768bb8be1c83d59614f1a7c691a0c42b97
Description-en: copy-on-write utility
Fl-cow allows you to utilise hard links to save disk space by causing
hard-linked files to be copied rather than overwritten as they are changed.
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This is useful for making changes to large source trees while keeping a copy
of the original tree to generate patches from. Also, if you are using the
Arch revision control system with working copies hard-linked to a revision
library, using fl-cow can prevent revision library corruption.
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Fl-cow is an LD_PRELOAD hack, not a kernel patch.
Description-md5: b35d8c4bff298c12fc96e08f2b34a941