How to Install and Uninstall kodi-vfs-libarchive Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "kodi-vfs-libarchive" package

This tutorial shows how to install kodi-vfs-libarchive on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install kodi-vfs-libarchive

2. Uninstall "kodi-vfs-libarchive" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall kodi-vfs-libarchive on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove kodi-vfs-libarchive $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the kodi-vfs-libarchive package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: kodi-vfs-libarchive
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0.0+ds1-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 255
Depends: libarchive13 (>= 3.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), kodi-api-vfs (>= 3.0.0), kodi-api-vfs (<< 3.1.0)
Filename: pool/universe/k/kodi-vfs-libarchive/kodi-vfs-libarchive_2.0.0+ds1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 79652
MD5sum: 6a188eb7ade9319f3c409ce86a860b07
SHA1: 75283db6f254f8ba76d76bf0e8ca56039d11d651
SHA256: 1a2c055160dd474fb9f179f9cdbc9168690cde64364e86b681e22fe48de843fc
SHA512: fe5361ffeef7eb6a6e0aa5fb62679a2560e3ff900088e30368a936be23dba675db6785590823f219ccd8a9956204d361cfe92fdc72ed25353ceaf797c07ef671
Homepage: https://kodi.tv
Description-en: Libarchive VFS add-on for Kodi
This is a Kodi VFS addon to support archives.
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From libarchive description:
Archive formats supported are:
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* tar (read and write, including GNU extensions)
* pax (read and write, including GNU and star extensions)
* cpio (read and write, including odc and newc variants)
* iso9660 (read and write, including Joliet and Rockridge extensions, with
some limitations)
* zip (read only, with some limitations, uses zlib)
* mtree (read and write)
* shar (write only)
* ar (read and write, including BSD and GNU/SysV variants)
* empty (read only; in particular, note that no other format will accept an
empty file)
* raw (read only)
* xar (read only)
* rar (read only, with some limitations)
* 7zip (read and write, with some limitations)
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Filters supported are:
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* gzip (read and write, uses zlib)
* bzip2 (read and write, uses bzlib)
* compress (read and write, uses an internal implementation)
* uudecode (read only)
* separate command-line compressors with fixed-signature auto-detection
* xz and lzma (read and write using liblzma)
* zstandard (read and write using libzstd)
Description-md5: 7016424e56565f7c4ca73c34472f9587