How to Install and Uninstall cifs-utils Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "cifs-utils" package

Please follow the steps below to install cifs-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install cifs-utils

2. Uninstall "cifs-utils" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall cifs-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):

$ sudo apt remove cifs-utils $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the cifs-utils package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: cifs-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:6.11-3.1
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 317
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libkeyutils1 (>= 1.4), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.13~alpha1+dfsg), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), libwbclient0 (>= 2:4.0.3+dfsg1), python3
Recommends: keyutils
Suggests: smbclient, winbind, bash-completion
Replaces: smbfs (<< 2:4.0~rc1-1)
Filename: pool/main/c/cifs-utils/cifs-utils_6.11-3.1_amd64.deb
Size: 92582
MD5sum: bbe051a5585b757058edb07924da4bef
SHA1: 34c28c8ace976e5a110f9b12ad8935ab2ad8acd0
SHA256: 1614f540d70b054844eb068cfcf75808f5e961d1fc0b4489b9e51157dc77cd11
SHA512: 5cf599cbc79e0feef3fa83513b930acb9132f780aab0b36e54da5884a40c8a5f0db654b4a2367337b07f715d542daa526e6ef5594d0e34ec8ef1d87456e01ef3
Homepage: https://www.samba.org/~jlayton/cifs-utils/
Description-en: Common Internet File System utilities
The SMB/CIFS protocol provides support for cross-platform file sharing with
Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.
.
This package provides utilities for managing mounts of CIFS network
file systems.
Description-md5: 935040b98485786df2e3f301255ff219
Task: samba-server, ubuntu-live, xubuntu-live, lubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-dvd-live, ubuntukylin-live, ubuntu-mate-live, ubuntu-budgie-live