How to Install and Uninstall libapt-pkg-perl Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "libapt-pkg-perl" package

Please follow the instructions below to install libapt-pkg-perl on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libapt-pkg-perl
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libapt-pkg-perl" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall libapt-pkg-perl on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libapt-pkg-perl
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libapt-pkg-perl package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libapt-pkg-perl
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.1.39build1
Priority: optional
Section: perl
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 230
Depends: perl, perlapi-5.32.1, libapt-pkg6.0 (>= 2.1.20), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0)
Filename: pool/main/liba/libapt-pkg-perl/libapt-pkg-perl_0.1.39build1_amd64.deb
Size: 69512
MD5sum: a978f0f2c6fce471498893a6aeacff2f
SHA1: aa2e10ccce1ac23a16fd139231a102faabcec167
SHA256: 7c96c3c105864fe4c61d45280d1aeb1c3a7a303f608c69ffeff3238859d81818
SHA512: f485c802d23c3d113e4be3d27083a1066aa18d20582a67119043d57019512bea5f1cd60a1ffc17f3f124d32e870c5791ae754726d03e6e37b071473bae8e73eb
Description-en: Perl interface to libapt-pkg
A Perl interface to APT's libapt-pkg which provides modules for configuration
file/command line parsing, version comparison, inspection of the binary
package cache and source package details.
Description-md5: b90df5c972edb2fc10beeac8dffd2963
Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop