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

Last updated: January 24,2025

1. Install "parallel" package

Please follow the steps below to install parallel on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall parallel on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: parallel
Architecture: all
Version: 20161222-1.1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Rogério Brito
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 994
Depends: perl, procps, sysstat, perl:any
Filename: pool/universe/p/parallel/parallel_20161222-1.1_all.deb
Size: 259668
MD5sum: bd6a2adba17d4fcaaf0a1d13a122a7c0
SHA1: d848afb183a226d04c8d8fc57b009566e8589af7
SHA256: 6e5e97d4a5adaa377ff3fb1538f82b712528d5a3618a07d0c49d7bfa4849930c
SHA512: 43de703037030db89efc2b6c8299b54f28c7b5235a45ff49504cd9b4e099240ebe4723a9c3738c2a51230e0c906a23c3c1f9d5eade796b9ed8f1dd0ca7f62080
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
Description-en: build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel
GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one
or more machines. A job is typically a single command or a small
script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The
typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, or
a list of tables.
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If you use xargs today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use. If
you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to
replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running jobs in
parallel. If you use ppss or pexec you will find GNU Parallel will
often make the command easier to read.
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GNU Parallel also makes sure output from the commands is the same
output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This
makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other
programs.
Description-md5: 8a851a81a172dd16a4bcbeb1f8f3c4ab