How to Install and Uninstall arc Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "arc" package

This is a short guide on how to install arc on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall arc on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                arc
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the arc package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: arc
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.21q-8
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 123
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Filename: pool/universe/a/arc/arc_5.21q-8_amd64.deb
Size: 53252
MD5sum: ef3fc3e3a8b9167613da524fa7732a27
SHA1: 068d7c69838bbc2545376c734af4dea663edd069
SHA256: e40ddadbcae69d949547dd045a57758cbc87527f8c39db704356928bc9c2b000
SHA512: 8eeb21e1fd3930c5a31671d760dd32914bc38abe6aed9d3a591f2ca678dc005baacde84ef86399f529e551bda39088aa7542818205a5b89c1fbf79780d9501e7
Homepage: https://github.com/ani6al/arc
Description-en: Archive utility based on the MSDOS ARC program
This program is based on the MSDOS ARC program, version 5.21, plus
a few enhancements...
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ARC also performs Huffman Squeezing on data. The Huffman Squeeze
algorithm was removed from MSDOS ARC after version 5.12. It turns
out to be more efficient than Lempel-Ziv style compression when
compressing graphic images. Squeeze analysis is always done now,
and the best of packing, squeezing, or crunching is used.
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Compresses and extracts Squashed files. "Squashing" was created
by Phil Katz in his PKxxx series of ARC utility programs for
MSDOS. Dan Lanciani wrote the original modifications to ARC's
Crunch code to handle Squashing. I've made minor changes since
then, mostly to reduce the amount of memory required. The 'q'
option flag must be specified to Squash files. The Squashing
algorithm will be used instead of the usual Crunch algorithm,
and will be compared against packing and squeezing, as before.
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This package provides the arc and marc commands. MARC can be
used to merge files compressed by ARC.
Description-md5: 1046295106b32f61b8841b9de2a0964d