How to Install and Uninstall efax Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "efax" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install efax on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                efax
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "efax" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                efax
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the efax package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: efax
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.9a-20
Priority: optional
Section: universe/comm
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 270
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libpaper-utils, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, make
Suggests: xloadimage | imagemagick | mgetty-viewfax
Filename: pool/universe/e/efax/efax_0.9a-20_amd64.deb
Size: 90384
MD5sum: f65a703d578d56df6b570c2023363619
SHA1: 46f3ad59051252f0eff44d8ff1504de055a79601
SHA256: 3c00f3c246f1b407a37e1d618e8c67e9721489556742e800b13c1a5f9194d1af
SHA512: e71a70eb8c2db7ed58906910d5d8318a4fe8c85dec9afd65bbbaaf155ff7e56c04963e1da457140cc61ae62297fd0722285861b7a58e787a661355d28b86650a
Description-en: programs to send and receive fax messages
efax is a small ANSI C/POSIX program that provides the data transport
function for fax applications using any Class 1 or Class 2 fax modem
Another program, efix, converts between fax, text, bitmap and grayscale
formats. fax, a shell script, provides a simple user interface to the efax
and efix programs. It allows you to send text or Postscript files as faxes
and receive, print or preview received faxes.
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The ghostscript package is needed to fax Postscript files, and an image
viewing program like xloadimage is needed to view incoming faxes.
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Note that you probably have to adapt /etc/efax.rc to your needs.
Description-md5: 2786f3290be033ea8b6fd54a0c4f5bb4