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

Last updated: December 21,2024

1. Install "discover" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install discover on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall discover on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


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

Package: discover
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.1.2-8
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Install System Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 89
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdiscover2 (= 2.1.2-8), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Suggests: lsb-base
Conflicts: discover1 (<< 2.0)
Filename: pool/universe/d/discover/discover_2.1.2-8_amd64.deb
Size: 24084
MD5sum: a545d1277d1f7e70c6b8c58d0ecda29e
SHA1: 2aae43e1771b57fa6fd83e0f7694d1b7a1f05084
SHA256: 0beb1c010a53c768dc635e345a66ba23e413f3f3e8587f6ce51dcb1d9586bfef
SHA512: df931d0352070007e5aaf8240468198eb1381c15468c2edf699f9241b49b66692f74f5b29ade005873cb82dd74afef0c638c9c1ce82450005b06b5bb19158a50
Description-en: hardware identification system
Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover2
library. Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can
use to report a wide range of information about the hardware that is
installed on a Linux system. In addition to reporting information,
Discover includes support for doing hardware detection at boot time.
Description-md5: a5dea31ea54f4b79eeb359717cce264b