How to Install and Uninstall libosinfo-bin Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "libosinfo-bin" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install libosinfo-bin on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libosinfo-bin
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libosinfo-bin" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall libosinfo-bin on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


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

Package: libosinfo-bin
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.8.0-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libs
Source: libosinfo
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Guido Günther
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 117
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libosinfo-1.0-0 (>= 1.6.0~)
Filename: pool/universe/libo/libosinfo/libosinfo-bin_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 26212
MD5sum: 270a0687a27e529e3ec64c80fccaea8f
SHA1: e66580f9b7709f72444a1d06c600335bd847da72
SHA256: d98b4d41873c71f91d8de3b322356bfd51910e7f2592148f16227ce5b4c41bbb
SHA512: a0bf0c17684c23cc5c6f1d182327679d35ffb61748dec95c89950885e4f041df9764ca7d2f3947fe8773dea10d4e872bd5329bd03708706ea911fd8fdf056f11
Homepage: https://libosinfo.org/
Description-en: Tools for querying the osinfo database via libosinfo
libosinfo is a GObject based library API for managing information about
operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they
can support. It includes a database containing device metadata and
provides APIs to match/identify optimal devices for deploying an
operating system on a hypervisor.
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This package contains the runtime files to detect operating systems and query
the database.
Description-md5: 9b54dcff8b2811fb98d2a5c218b33934