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

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "findutils" package

Please follow the guidance below to install findutils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall findutils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: findutils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.8.0-1ubuntu2
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Essential: yes
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Andreas Metzler
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 624
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~)
Suggests: mlocate | locate
Breaks: binstats (<< 1.08-8.1), guilt (<< 0.36-0.2), libpython3.4-minimal (<< 3.4.4-2), libpython3.5-minimal (<< 3.5.1-3), lsat (<< 0.9.7.1-2.1), mc (<< 3:4.8.11-1), switchconf (<< 0.0.9-2.1)
Filename: pool/main/f/findutils/findutils_4.8.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 332032
MD5sum: 681d8535a3e2083867337fa5742e53c7
SHA1: 9f52d9dbc7f9eb7e080f0958789dccc704bc9016
SHA256: 9f411cca2708ca62be7133abf3dd0225df29364923bb637b7d4d8e6b68bdc270
SHA512: f6ebb28f36ab97f5d82810ef31ae31018257ad4279458d656899ae13dfdc8316f029a33bebe7611effea723154b42ef41eb7d80444caed8edb094e6a0c956fd2
Homepage: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils/
Description-en: utilities for finding files--find, xargs
GNU findutils provides utilities to find files meeting specified
criteria and perform various actions on the files which are found.
This package contains 'find' and 'xargs'; however, 'locate' has
been split off into a separate package.
Description-md5: ad1a783819241ffdf3ff5f37a676af59
Task: minimal