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

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "cpio" package

This guide let you learn how to install cpio on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

Learn how to uninstall cpio on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


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

Package: cpio
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.13+dfsg-4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 372
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17)
Suggests: libarchive1
Conflicts: cpio-mt, mt-st (<< 0.6)
Replaces: cpio-mt
Filename: pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.13+dfsg-4_amd64.deb
Size: 87096
MD5sum: 3fb4a412e97c8d95f6c7912d1fd9a199
SHA1: 3db52f64bef49af6f63c3fdaa21326156981d3a8
SHA256: c4e2a7edc73c84d9c469a728a495b61227f6e14b13d0106fb17a59787f9214f2
SHA512: 462861d55fd48d7d7c2b3c6a4d7c861dfd72cb80dbc1837bb5bab1de5a32c5fc04493e698088266fe83ea1300a982425480173728ded17abc3783ede512cefcc
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
Description-en: GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files
GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying
files from one place to another. It handles a number of cpio formats
as well as reading and writing tar files.
Description-md5: 5f492bf139a41f29fd2d6fcadf43606e
Task: standard