How to Install and Uninstall libhd-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 21,2024

1. Install "libhd-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install libhd-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libhd-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libhd-dev" package

Learn how to uninstall libhd-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: libhd-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 21.72-1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: hwinfo
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastien Badia
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 116
Provides: libhd12-dev, libhd13-dev, libhd14-dev, libhd15-dev, libhd16-dev, libhd20-dev, libhd21-dev
Depends: libhd21 (= 21.72-1)
Suggests: libhd-doc
Filename: pool/universe/h/hwinfo/libhd-dev_21.72-1_amd64.deb
Size: 21808
MD5sum: 261aa0e41804203a513486e79cf61ba6
SHA1: 8b9374438054c5fd2a79af2c03ad4e835c39dbd5
SHA256: 19eea9c10d0a209f3eb87707b1a94e565c777f116b421ac1ad5b137066b51ea8
SHA512: daef7dc76b3d14ef8d5185be42c018075acb41c9ebad4db005c23ff4674903bee763e6dcc4f792937db51aa0b998d41be8e9abfae07b2e56444947ef0b543e7c
Homepage: https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo
Description-en: Hardware identification system library and headers
hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.
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In Debian Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when
detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.
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hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among
others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and
partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe,
isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp.
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This package contains the static library and header files from the hwinfo
package.
Description-md5: 59c83d99599ac15262c22aee15952c73