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

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "mscompress" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install mscompress on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall mscompress on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: mscompress
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.4-8build1
Priority: extra
Section: otherosfs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Patrick Matthäi
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 45
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Filename: pool/main/m/mscompress/mscompress_0.4-8build1_amd64.deb
Size: 9802
MD5sum: 679972b9106a901e4d80f6002a56727e
SHA1: 3d71f591d3bd9e076dda56f653cbfcd3c0cb56a5
SHA256: 18b0cdf2da69f1f2defb18e631f6616022a3854847170d0ccde9d6fde376bf77
SHA512: fc115a87278fc1648757825310bba012315f89b13f335f46878ac447e7f13215f206a21db400ddbbb145fa4c0aabbbd2f6729964cbc3a780693adae9a55cb3df
Homepage: https://github.com/stapelberg/mscompress
Description-en: Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible (de)compressor
This package contains two programs:
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* msexpand which decompresses files compressed by the Microsoft
compress.exe utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files);
* mscompress which compresses files using the LZ77 compression
algorithm.
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Files can be decompressed using Microsoft expand.exe or msexpand(1).
Description-md5: b4f9fff832e68d790b9a7feeefbb8eb5
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