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

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "par" package

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


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

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


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

Package: par
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.52-5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Andreas Metzler
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 83
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/universe/p/par/par_1.52-5_amd64.deb
Size: 44128
MD5sum: 4175cfb24130ca34cf8253dc806cc2ef
SHA1: 5c3bcc78bd82a73d7e8c7084e4ac58c09dbbec93
SHA256: 27eac848196319b1c7af0dee822c69cd9b6cb1e087a4ba4e1982656ac9e6bc80
SHA512: 9004d5f33ea85db4638365889b2b055a42fbc70acf8e2424faf3c6891e64f45158e9c17357addddc48e27520a76cab074512feb4cb78e7fa33a2a29a1b4fa262
Homepage: http://www.nicemice.net/par/
Description-en: Paragraph reformatter
Greatly enhanced fmt type program by Adam M. Costello.
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Can be used within vi or other editor to automatically reformat text
in a variety of ways.
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Perfect for use with email & usenet messages as it correctly handles
multiple levels of quoting characters.
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This version includes a patch allowing multi-byte and multi-width character
encodings.
Description-md5: 71660063a9c5d8d7c0aae26ef5f56aeb