How to Install and Uninstall android-file-transfer Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "android-file-transfer" package

Please follow the guidance below to install android-file-transfer on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                android-file-transfer
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "android-file-transfer" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall android-file-transfer on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                android-file-transfer
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the android-file-transfer package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: android-file-transfer
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Dylan Aïssi
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2045
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.15.1), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libstdc++6 (>= 9)
Filename: pool/universe/a/android-file-transfer/android-file-transfer_4.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 492196
MD5sum: 8c73cb2a85c27788225047fa737ba61d
SHA1: f31089db077ae9c8c6b99776a8ddf7af02737300
SHA256: 86d207e9136736ae58395612feeebbb48874bf11280a71da4a5c686143d77024
SHA512: b106940c5aff6fd7bbbe5398eeead216f97f222aba25d22b57e1bd84f5d4f079340af9de04a63dd98ea3bb9aa9e367ade9b9a12eaa13d8532ef3c656bf28137e
Homepage: https://whoozle.github.io/android-file-transfer-linux/
Description-en: reliable MTP client with minimalistic UI
Android-File-Transfer is a reliable MTP client with minimalistic UI.
Its features are:
1. Simple Qt UI with progress dialogs.
2. FUSE wrapper, supporting partial read/writes, allowing instant access
to your files.
3. No file size limits.
4. Automatically renames album cover to make it visible from media player.
5. USB ‘Zerocopy’ support found in recent Linux kernel (no user/kernel
data copying).
6. No extra dependencies (e.g. libptp/libmtp).
7. Available as static/shared library.
8. Command line tool (aft-mtp-cli).
Description-md5: 58a1524e1344d1c366ef7b4c9c6d197f