How to Install and Uninstall libarchive-tools Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "libarchive-tools" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install libarchive-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libarchive-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libarchive-tools" package

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


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

Package: libarchive-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.4.3-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: libarchive
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Peter Pentchev
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 202
Depends: libarchive13 (= 3.4.3-2), libc6 (>= 2.14)
Breaks: bsdcpio (<< 3.2.1-2~), bsdtar (<< 3.2.1-2~)
Replaces: bsdcpio (<< 3.2.1-2~), bsdtar (<< 3.2.1-2~)
Filename: pool/universe/liba/libarchive/libarchive-tools_3.4.3-2_amd64.deb
Size: 57092
MD5sum: 44d2dc282e4343dfd00432f9ec7bd69e
SHA1: 3fa033eb0cfbb3992d6e7773a0d6f2e36b972ab1
SHA256: 4ca5748b7426b6a5479ab7574cbc70de593c21c62355490bd174a219826896a5
SHA512: 0745e5cc88185100c090039507884c56330802353c40760069181102ed73d5096a48c6dc498ea548cebd29ec89ada9b42b4dae352d458df0b979a1419eaab626
Homepage: https://www.libarchive.org/
Description-en: FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools
This package contains several command-line tools based on the libarchive
library.
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The bsdtar program is the default system 'tar' program used on FreeBSD. bsdtar
uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading
and writing archives in various formats.
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The bsdcpio program is the default system 'cpio' program used on FreeBSD.
bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for
reading and writing archives in various formats.
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The bsdcat program reads archived data from files or from its standard input
and uses the libarchive library to decompresses it to its standard output.
It may be used for viewing the contents of archives or for passing it to other
tools for further processing.
Description-md5: 04bbebb441868f4c976e664833572c46