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

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "sdate" package

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


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall sdate on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: sdate
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.7
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Christoph Berg
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 38
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Filename: pool/universe/s/sdate/sdate_0.7_amd64.deb
Size: 7732
MD5sum: 656acf1d0711030cfe3719cf65fe22f6
SHA1: ed54a01ffe7069293eb0bf896951999796d0bfb2
SHA256: 430b05ad881805387e344661f548af1737478483e1976d13b456ec444b6958af
SHA512: 22326d0ae73ae02e4f50690fa612fb20b8d99fdca9416cc1693f7ed773ecac022082f6d1b00436d0eb9fe86e1413f2830b753c50c3b665880298510301f9c5ae
Homepage: https://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/
Description-en: never ending September date
sdate wraps the libc localtime() and gmtime() functions to output the eternal
september 1993 date.
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sdate works like fakeroot (on which its code is based) by setting LD_PRELOAD
to a wrapper library.
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* http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html
Description-md5: ffdf4f0384fd4a15eb161b474b28d6ae