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

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "fswatch" package

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


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

Learn how to uninstall fswatch on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: fswatch
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.14.0+repack-13build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alf Gaida
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 545
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 6)
Breaks: libfswatch-dev, libfswatch11
Replaces: libfswatch-dev, libfswatch11
Filename: pool/universe/f/fswatch/fswatch_1.14.0+repack-13build1_amd64.deb
Size: 161020
MD5sum: ea12387402c7fb7c196de2767b43b7bf
SHA1: f9aad5a7b435eadcb25e94e0e50a6f84cff734f4
SHA256: 87529d2a86c6568d05c99f3e30f25e256ae45bc1bdd6967b35ac214ba65f820f
SHA512: ddb14f7739c09517503ce5929756268611d0204559c5952c857e9a6df0c4e433aaf813351775c1384b58c808fa0aaac5cd8ca91da6fc5ae04edaa77a3b05694c
Homepage: http://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch
Description-en: file change monitor based on inotify
fswatch is a file change monitor that receives notifications when the contents
of the specified files or directories are modified. fswatch implements the
following kinds of monitors:
* A monitor based on the File System Events API of Apple OS X.
* A monitor based on kqueue, an event notification interface introduced in
FreeBSD 4.1 and supported on most *BSD systems (including OS X).
* A monitor based on inotify, a Linux kernel subsystem that reports file
system changes to applications.
* A monitor based on File Events Notification, a Solaris/Illumos kernel API
that reports file events.
* A monitor which periodically stats the file system, saves file modification
times in memory and manually calculates file system changes, which can work
on any operating system where stat (2) can be used.
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fswatch should build and work correctly on any system shipping either of the
aforementioned APIs
Description-md5: 253c4e6aa294af84255f9b87d9c2cea8