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

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "extract" package

This tutorial shows how to install extract on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall extract on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: extract
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:1.11-5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: libextractor
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Daniel Baumann
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 46
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libextractor3 (>= 0.6.3)
Recommends: libextractor-plugins-all
Filename: pool/universe/libe/libextractor/extract_1.11-5_amd64.deb
Size: 11280
MD5sum: 066a8f102b9939114d3cbe968e8ce410
SHA1: 75ade8a78dbb6857a947fbf343dc47c4728195ce
SHA256: ca8d681de46f7187b43069101e4992e39789187deacdf0b0ed3bb58678016f8c
SHA512: decf91bfe007e502229f60cff07b7cf1a423f07e58fc2e5cf053a96c0116b2f876bd229ada0fd8a593a32cb78296a64f3761e8932dc40a6c72f271e030466b74
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/
Description-en: displays meta-data from files of arbitrary type
Similar to the well-known "file" command, extract can display meta-data from a
file and print the results to stdout.
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Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, MAN, PS, DVI,
OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), FLAC,
MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), XM (eXtended Module),
IT (Impulse Tracker), NSF(E) (NES music), SID (C64 music), EXIV2, JPEG, GIF,
PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), LZH, LHA, RAR, ZIP, CAB, 7-ZIP, AR, MTREE, PAX,
CPIO, ISO9660, SHAR, RAW, XAR, FLV, REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT and ASF.
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Also, various additional MIME types are detected. It can also be used to
compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160).
Description-md5: adb63ea5387b4686cf923e5466e478be