How to Install and Uninstall distro-info Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "distro-info" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install distro-info on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install distro-info

2. Uninstall "distro-info" package

Learn how to uninstall distro-info on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove distro-info $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the distro-info package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: distro-info
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Drung
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 68
Depends: distro-info-data (>= 0.46), libc6 (>= 2.7)
Suggests: shunit2 (>= 2.1.6)
Filename: pool/main/d/distro-info/distro-info_1.0_amd64.deb
Size: 18236
MD5sum: b6a62581680a92af6dc9eac969b3a197
SHA1: fd168c782b631e66f6e8ab84edc33cd77d02d242
SHA256: 1879c7409868b167f26b2b233424a379009bbeebf89014a2974a3f33185fc703
SHA512: 629c7e2a36b5af6b29c2defda12163b3c8f655974c6149a5c183158ab338d8b2229711fca7cc2b45f428c28269967b558b95b6088f1c0a6e22a985997b50493c
Description-en: provides information about the distributions' releases
Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script
will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your
distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the
debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts.
Description-md5: 5671943e370fd3dd7449d885e6363cee
Task: server-raspi, ubuntu-desktop-raspi, ubuntu-budgie-desktop-raspi