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

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "pax" package

Please follow the instructions below to install pax on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall pax on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: pax
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:20201030-1build1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Thorsten Glaser
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 174
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Enhances: arj, binutils, cpio, dpkg, gzip, lha, libarchive-tools, p7zip, rar, star, tar, unrar, unzip, zip
Filename: pool/main/p/pax/pax_20201030-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 86826
MD5sum: 725ec5bbfc4c8252e1fda9bfe5525611
SHA1: b5f8f942046ce6b08d8a230f105ab1efdb8e0423
SHA256: cbb186616f9305d2f9bcd77433e669f3bf2db2f217fd4997df4f3900fd76bc71
SHA512: 6c3a98b74d599ee5fd50b4c6c3f436f78f4ef4e421427d2e10027a58eb98643e3417eff62a0138ff72e7a8ea79148413723dc7c5a495c0bff5f389a070ba572c
Homepage: http://www.mirbsd.org/pax.htm
Description-en: Portable Archive Interchange (cpio, pax, tar)
paxtar is an implementation of an archiving utility that reads
and writes several formats - traditional ones, the extended
formats specified in IEEE 1003.1, and the ar(5) format used
by deb(5) packages (MirBSD specific paxtar extension). The
pax interface was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a compromise in
the chronic controversy over which of tar or cpio is best, but
this implementation offers paxcpio and paxtar for easy calling.
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This is the MirBSD paxtar implementation supporting the formats
ar, bcpio, cpio, SVR4 cpio with and without CRC, old tar, and
ustar, but not the format known as pax yet. It has extensions
for removing non-numerical user and group IDs from the archive,
storing hardlinked files only once, setting ownership to the
superuser, anonymising inode and device information, changing
the mtime to zero, and producing GNU tar compatible trailing
slashes on ustar directory nodes. Its "ar" format is suitable
for operating on *.deb files, unlike that of GNU binutils.
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Note that ACLs and Extended Attributes are not supported.
Description-md5: 6a13dcd72d0208af12f4a865635b9dac